Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMuch unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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 man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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