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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWhat is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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