50+ Fyodor Dostoevsky | Minimalist Quotes

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

Call Clever Fools Himself Man Opinion
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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Fools Happiness Paradise Unhappy Worse
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Bow Humanity Suffering
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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Broken Heart Sad Unhappy Unsaid World
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Change Fear Human Nature People Step Words
Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Break Pleasant Right Time Wrong
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Act Genius Intelligence
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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Cease Hope Life Live One Liner
A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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One Liner Proof Suspicious
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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Existence Inspirational Live Sun
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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Awful Beauty Devil Fight God Heart Man Mystery Terrible
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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Earth Heart Inevitable Intelligence Pain Sad Suffering
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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Human Being Life Man Mystery Need Philosophy Want
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Bright Close Darkness God Grief Inspirational Night Stars
Beauty will save the world.
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Beauty One Liner Save World
To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Couple God Intend Love
To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Couple God Intend Love
This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Happiness Message Seek Sorrow
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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Advice Inspirational Life Path Wrong
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Greatness Happiness Source Unhappy
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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Cease Distinguish Himself Lie Listen Love Man Respect Truth Yourself
The soul is healed by being with children.
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Children Healing Soul
I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Alone Loneliness Thought
If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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God One Liner Permit
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Break Up Love Suffering
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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Alive Existence Finding Human Live Mystery
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Extraordinary Love Man Passionate Suffering

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