The soul is healed by being with children.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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 greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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