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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky 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 DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky 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.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky 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.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky 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 DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky Beauty will save the world.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky 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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