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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMuch unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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