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Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote - The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Civilization Degree Enter Judgment Prison Society
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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Brain Character Guide Heart Ideas Progress Quality
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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Earth Heart Inevitable Intelligence Pain Sad Suffering
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Act Genius Intelligence
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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Fools Happiness Paradise Unhappy Worse
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Break Up Love Suffering
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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Call Clever Fools Himself Man Opinion
To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Couple God Intend Love
Beauty will save the world.
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Beauty One Liner Save World
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Hell Love Maintain Suffering
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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Cease Distinguish Himself Lie Listen Love Man Respect Truth Yourself
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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Cruel Man Mankind Offensive People Speak Terrible
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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Advice Inspirational Life Path Wrong
I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Alone Loneliness Thought
The soul is healed by being with children.
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Children Healing Soul
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Action Comparison Dreams Harsh Love
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Life Live One Liner Story
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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Compel Respect Self Respect Yourself
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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Dishonesty Growth Man One Liner
A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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One Liner Proof Suspicious
Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Break Pleasant Right Time Wrong
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Bright Close Darkness God Grief Inspirational Night Stars
You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Human Nature One Liner Sincere Stupidity
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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Existence Inspirational Live Sun
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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Human Being Life Man Mystery Need Philosophy Want
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Difficult Doer Easy Evil Understand
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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Difference Indifference Kill Matter Moments Myself Wait

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