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 DOSTOEVSKYThe darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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