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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Beauty will save the world.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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