Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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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 did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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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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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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