If there is no God, everything is permitted.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMuch unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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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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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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 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.
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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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