Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYYou can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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