The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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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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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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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