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 DOSTOEVSKYTo live without Hope is to Cease to live.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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