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"46 Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes & Sayings

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Born: November 11, 1821 Died: February 9, 1881 | Novelist | Philosopher |

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.

Respect Around Cease Love
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
Mystery Of Man Existence
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
Nothing This World Speaking
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

Darker Night Brighter Stars
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I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.

Gave Up Caring About
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Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

Love Animals Plants Everything
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Better Unhappy Know Worst
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

If You Overcome Whole
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Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

Life Matters What Life
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Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

Learning Love Hard Pay
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People speak sometimes about the

People Speak Sometimes Bestial
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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

You Wish Glimpse Inside
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
You Can Sincere Still
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The soul is healed by being with children.

Peace Soul Healed By
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Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

Wealth The Number Things
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Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

Yes Right Love Should
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Nothing Easier Than Denounce
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To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

Love Another Person See
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Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.

Humanity Can Live Without
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Right attitudes produces right action

Right Attitudes Produces Right
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Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

Love Children Especially They
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Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

Only Heart Knows How
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Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up

Giving Up Luxury Easy Luxuries
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He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.

Who Masters The Grey
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Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

Climbing Challenges Suffering Only
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Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

Suffering Part Parcel Extensive
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?

But Could Live No
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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.

Brains Matter Most Which
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Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Only One Thing To
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Takes Something Than Intelligence
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Cleverest All Man Who
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Happiness Laughter Joy Greatest
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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.

Think But Devil Doesn't
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A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

Wisdom.Knowledge Proof Hundred Suspicion Suspicions
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If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

Atheist Doe God Then
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There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
Healing Deep Thought A
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The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

Most Offensive Their Lying
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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.

Respected Others Great Respect
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In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

In Realist Faith Born
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People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

People Intelligent Well Known
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To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Self Determination Independent Independent
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A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
How Not Prison Judged
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I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

Believe I Believe Men Ungrateful
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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Money Emotion Real Gentleman
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The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

Men Purpose He Man
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Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

Show Me Desire Shows Something
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Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes & Sayings