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.
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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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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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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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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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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