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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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