Fyodor Dostoyevsky quotes

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist and philosopher, renowned for his profound psychological insight and exploration of the human soul. His major works, such as "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov," have had a lasting impact on world literature. He remains one of the most influential writers in literary history. Here are 211 of his quotes:

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that. View quote
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To think too much is a disease. View quote
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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. View quote
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God! View quote
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The soul is healed by being with children. View quote
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But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate. View quote
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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. View quote
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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. View quote
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. View quote
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To love someone means to see him as God intended him. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Beauty would save the world. View quote
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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. View quote
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The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions. View quote
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Love life more than the meaning of it? View quote
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If anyone could prove to me that Christ is outside the truth, and if the truth really did exclude Christ, I should prefer to stay with Christ and not with truth. View quote
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A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man! View quote
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He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love. View quote
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If there is no God, everything is permitted. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms. View quote
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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. View quote
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I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart my heart, and not my head; and I had determined beforehand to fire at my head, at my right temple. After aiming at my chest I waited a second or two, and suddenly my candle, my table, and the wall in front of me began moving and heaving. I made haste to pull the trigger. View quote
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I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings of what? Of the truth, for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes, have seen it in all its glory . View quote
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