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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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