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 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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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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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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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 love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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