What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYNothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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 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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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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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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Beauty will save the world.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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