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 DOSTOEVSKYThe mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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