If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYNothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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Beauty will save the world.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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