I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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