It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo live without Hope is to Cease to live.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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