A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYPain 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.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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