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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIf there is no God, everything is permitted.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Beauty will save the world.
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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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