What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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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 is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Beauty will save the world.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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