I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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Beauty will save the world.
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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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