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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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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 grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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