To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYNothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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