Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTaking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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