Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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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.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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