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 DOSTOEVSKYWhen reason fails, the devil helps!
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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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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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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Beauty will save the world.
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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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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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