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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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