50+ Fyodor Dostoevsky | Minimalist Quotes

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Hell Love Maintain Suffering
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Difficult Doer Easy Evil Understand
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Easy Flatter Honesty Integrity Speak Truth World
I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Hell Selfish Tea World
When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Devil Help One Liner Reason
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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Cruel Man Mankind Offensive People Speak Terrible
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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Creation Devil Existence Image Man
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Civilization Degree Enter Judgment Prison Society
You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Human Nature One Liner Sincere Stupidity
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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Beginning Encounter Human Nature Interest People Perfection Stranger
Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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Capable Misery People Reciculous Terrible
A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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Beast Cruel Human Being never
I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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Amaze Love Mankind Particular
You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Burn Come Back Healing
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Action Comparison Dreams Harsh Love
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Calculation Count Deep Happiness Man Trouble
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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Compel Respect Self Respect Yourself
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Acknowledgement Conscience Man Punishment Suffering
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Life Live One Liner Story
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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Dishonesty Growth Man One Liner
Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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Difference Indifference Kill Matter Moments Myself Wait
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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Brain Character Guide Heart Ideas Progress Quality
If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Change Inspirational Overcome World
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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Human Mankind Nonsense Organism Possess Privilege Talk Truth

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