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 DOSTOEVSKYI say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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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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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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