All Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
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There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
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One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
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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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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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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