The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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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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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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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.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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