Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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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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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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