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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo live without Hope is to Cease to live.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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 darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Beauty will save the world.
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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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