To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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 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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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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