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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes
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In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.
In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.
Inventors and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of their careers.
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
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.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.
Diplomacy Quote
There are times when even the greatest tactician in diplomatic cunning is outclassed in his own game. It is then that he discovers that all that he thought he had gained is but loss, and that what is left of national honor and dignity is but the shadow of an illustrious past that is gone forever, or of a potentially great future that will never come.
Happiness Quote
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Life Quote
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
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