I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYPeople 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.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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