The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe soul is healed by being with children.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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 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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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