Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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