But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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 is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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