GREAT QUOTES OF DOSTOEVSKY

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF 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

“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

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The soul is healed by being with children.” - 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

“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

“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

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GREAT QUOTES OF LEO TOLSTOY

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF LEO TOLSTOY

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” - Leo Tolstoy

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” - Leo Tolstoy

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.” - Leo Tolstoy

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” - Leo Tolstoy

“I think... if it is true that

there are as many minds as there

are heads, then there are as many

kinds of love as there are hearts.” - Leo Tolstoy

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” - Leo Tolstoy

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” - Leo Tolstoy

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.” - Leo Tolstoy

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” - Leo Tolstoy

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” - Leo Tolstoy

GREAT QUOTES OF VICTOR HUGO

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GREAT QUOTES OF VICTOR HUGO

1. "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." -Victor Hugo.

2. "Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots." -Victor Hugo.

3. "Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise." -Victor Hugo, 'Les Miserables'.

4. "Taste is the common sense of genius." -Victor Hugo.

5. "He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two." -Victor Hugo.

6. "To die is nothing, but it is terrible not to live." -Victor Hugo

7. "The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate." -Victor Hugo.

8. "To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further there is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life." -Victor Hugo

9. "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." -Victor Hugo.

10. "At the end of life death is a departure; but at life's beginning a departure is death." -Victor Hugo

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GREAT QUOTES OF OSCAR WILDE

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF OSCAR WILDE

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” - Oscar Wilde

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” - Oscar Wilde

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” - Oscar Wilde

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” - Oscar Wilde

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” - Oscar Wilde

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.” - Oscar Wilde

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” - Oscar Wilde

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” - Oscar Wilde

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” - Oscar Wilde

GREAT QUOTES OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” -  George Bernard Shaw

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” -  George Bernard Shaw

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” - George Bernard Shaw

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?” - George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” - George Bernard Shaw

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Youth is wasted on the young.” - George Bernard Shaw

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” -  George Bernard Shaw

GREAT QUOTES OF GEORGE ORWELL

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF GEORGE ORWELL

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” - George Orwell, 1984

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” - George Orwell, 1984

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” -  George Orwell

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” - George Orwell, 1984

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” - George Orwell

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”-  George Orwell, 1984

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” -  George Orwell

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” - George Orwell, 1984

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” -  George Orwell

GREAT QUOTES OF ALBERT CAMUS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF ALBERT CAMUS

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow

Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead

Walk beside me… just be my friend” -  Albert Camus

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” -  Albert Camus

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” -  Albert Camus

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” - Albert Camus

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” -  Albert Camus

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?” - Albert Camus

“Live to the point of tears.” - Albert Camus

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” - Albert Camus

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.” - Albert Camus, The Fall

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus