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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBeauty will save the world.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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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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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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