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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #2
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

  • #3
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #4
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I don’t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

  • #5
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

  • #6
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

  • #7
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • #8
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

  • #9
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “How can a man of consciousness have the slightest respect for himself”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

  • #10
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I like revisiting, at certain times, spots where I was once happy; I like to shape the present in the image of the irretrievable past.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

  • #11
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #12
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

  • #13
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #14
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • #15
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • #16
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I want to suffer so that I may love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

  • #17
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Love life more than the meaning of it?”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #18
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

  • #19
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #20
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

  • #21
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The soul is healed by being with children.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #22
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • #23
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #24
    Alan W. Watts
    “To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
    Alan Wilson Watts

  • #25
    Alan W. Watts
    “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
    Alan Wilson Watts

  • #26
    Alan W. Watts
    “The menu is not the meal.”
    Alan Watts

  • #27
    Alan W. Watts
    “The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”
    Alan Watts

  • #28
    Alan W. Watts
    “To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape.”
    Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

  • #29
    Alan W. Watts
    “It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.”
    Alan Watts

  • #30
    Anton Chekhov
    “The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov



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