Above all, don't lie to yourself.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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I don't like being asked the same thing twice. I like people to understand at the first word. Some things can't be explained.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road–there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Do, my dear, for heaven's sake, get out of your habit of judging other people's affairs without knowing all the circumstances.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I'm a master of speaking silently, all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

And if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometime be the means of saving us.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky