It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBeauty will save the world.
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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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 is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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