To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThis is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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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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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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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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 degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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