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“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

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

“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

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“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.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“When reason fails, the devil helps!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
― Oscar Wilde

“This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Life is too short to learn German”
― Oscar Wilde

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
― Oscar Wilde, Salomé

“All art is quite useless.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Some things are too important to be taken seriously.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You know I have loved him always.

But we are very poor.

Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden...”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance