Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo love someone means to see them as God intended them.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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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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 soul is healed by being with children.
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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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