I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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 grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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