Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo live without Hope is to Cease to live.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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.
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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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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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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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