I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThis is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Beauty will save the world.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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