Russian - Novelist | November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881
The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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.
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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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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.
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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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