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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWhen reason fails, the devil helps!
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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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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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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Beauty will save the world.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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