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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Beauty will save the world.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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