Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes

Russian novelist, philosopher, short story writer, essayist, and journalist

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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Yet, I didn’t understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Pain & 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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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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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To think too much is a disease.
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Without God all things are permitted.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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