It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYRight or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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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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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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