Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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