Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, People Quotes, Done Quotes

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

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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 chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all.

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The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.

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In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

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For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

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There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

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To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.

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I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.

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One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

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I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, i don't know a fig about my sickness, and am not sure what it is that hurts me. I am not being treated and never have been, though I respect medicine. What's more, I am also superstitious in the extreme; well, at least enough to respect medicine.

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I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

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I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.

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Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.

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Catch several hares and you won't catch one.

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Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

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If he's alive, everything is in his power! Whose fault is it that he doesn't understand that?

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Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

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Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

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To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

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