To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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.
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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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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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