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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI 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.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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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.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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