But how could you live and have no story to tell?
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYAbove 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.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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Beauty will save the world.
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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 greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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