The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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