Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Beauty will save the world.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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