Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
beauty
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
death
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
fear
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
god
If there is no God, everything is permitted.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
god
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
god
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.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
good
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
great
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
happiness
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
happiness
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.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
happiness
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
hope
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
love
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
men
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.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
money
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
power
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
women
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
work
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