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 DOSTOEVSKYLove in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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