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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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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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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