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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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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