If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWhat is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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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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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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