Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThis is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
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