Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
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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 darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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