We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYLove in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
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