Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Stupidity Quotes, Honest Quotes

The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

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What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?

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I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.

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The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

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Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

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The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation... ...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.

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Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

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It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.

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... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

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Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.

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Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

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To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

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Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.

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There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

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They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

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Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

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You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

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In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

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We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.

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