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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Beauty will save the world.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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