Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes & Sayings
26 most famous Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a Russian novelist who passed away on 9 February, 1881.
“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
“There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.”
“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.”
“Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.”
“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!”
“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.”
“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.”
“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
“If there is no God, everything is permitted.”
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