Fyodor Dostoevsky on beginning
“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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky 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.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky 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.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky 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.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky 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 DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky Beauty will save the world.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.
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C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
Roald DahlRoald Dahl Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry FordHenry Ford The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
ConfuciusConfucius Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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