Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWhat is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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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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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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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Beauty will save the world.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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