It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYNothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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 say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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