The soul is healed by being with children.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYLove in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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 degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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 only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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.
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Beauty will save the world.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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.
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