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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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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 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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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