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 DOSTOEVSKYIf there is no God, everything is permitted.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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