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Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes Sentence Starter
These are various quotes taken from Russian Author Fyodor Dostoevsky and his works. Change things to your liking. Enjoy.
“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. “
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth!”
“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.”
“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.”
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
“Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering…”
“I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
“You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
“It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”
“Beauty will save the world”
“I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.”
“To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”
“Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.”
“When reason fails, the devil helps!”
“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
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"I say let the world go to hell, but 1 should always have my tea."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis 1915
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