Fyodor Dostoyevsky quotes
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
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Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
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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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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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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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Beauty will save the world.
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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.
