Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo love someone means to see them as God intended them.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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 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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Beauty will save the world.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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