Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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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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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 mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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