The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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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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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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