It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo love someone means to see them as God intended them.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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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 am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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 live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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 greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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