Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan 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.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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 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 soul is healed by being with children.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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