Beauty will save the world.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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