I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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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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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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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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