"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"Compassion is the chief law of human existence."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"Realists do not fear the results of their study."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"If you want to overcome the world, overcome yourself."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"I love mankind, but I find that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"The soul is healed by being with children."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"To live without hope is to cease to live."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"Above all, don't lie to yourself."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"Beauty will save the world."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"Man is what he believes."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"To love someone means to see them as God intended them."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky
