But how could you live and have no story to tell?
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe soul is healed by being with children.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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 is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Beauty will save the world.
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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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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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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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