If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI 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.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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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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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Beauty will save the world.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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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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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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