I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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