Beauty will save the world.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBesides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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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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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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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.
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