I 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.
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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Beauty will save the world.
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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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