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#1

“To have great poets,
there must be great audiences.”
― Walt Whitman

#2

“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

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

11635 likes

#3

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

9015 likes

#4

“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

tags: happiness, man, trouble

3288 likes

#5

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

tags: intelligence, intelligent-action

2926 likes

#6

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life

2920 likes

#7

“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

1388 likes

#8

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

1380 likes

#9

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

1295 likes

#10

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: 265, raskolnikov, suffering

1227 likes

#11

“Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

1039 likes

#12

“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

874 likes

#13

“A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

826 likes

#14

“Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

tags: indifference, suicide

698 likes

#15

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

787 likes

#16

“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

719 likes

#17

“We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: eternity

698 likes

#18

“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: life, perspective, social-norms, society

519 likes

#19

“The eyes are useless when the mind is blind”
― Mark Venturini

8 likes

#20

“Давно уже отмечено умными людьми, что счастье — как здоровье: когда оно налицо, его не замечаешь. Но когда пройдут годы, — как вспоминаешь о счастье, о, как вспоминаешь!”
― Михаил Булгаков, Морфий. Записки юного врача

3 likes

#21

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

tags: loquacity, remaining-silent, silence

1803 likes

#22

“Decide what you want to do. Then decide to do it. Then do it.”
― William Knowlton Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

52 likes

#23

“Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide To Writing Nonfiction

tags: wisdom, writing

48 likes

#24

“Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard.”
― William Knowlton Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

43 likes

#25

“Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

tags: conciseness, writing

39 likes

#26

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus

tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars

2725 likes

#27

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: philosophy

1871 likes

#28

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational

8151 likes

#29

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

8952 likes

#30

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88000 likes

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