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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYA beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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 greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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