A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYNothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Beauty will save the world.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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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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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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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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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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