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Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.

Consciousness is man’s greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  2. If misfortune finds us, it will not find a home among us, for our hearts will give it no berth, as we birth the fortunes, misfortune missed. – Tom Althouse
  3. Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deep heart. Truly great men I think, must feel great sorrow in this world. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  4. Was this their exact exchange? Almost certainly not. Still, it is my best memory of their exchange. – Julian Barnes
  5. The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. Man does not live by bread alone. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. He’s an intelligent man, but it takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  8. Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  9. Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  10. Woe to the man who offends a small child! – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  11. Man is a vile creature! – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  12. Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time! – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  13. Man is unhappy because he doesn’t know he’s happy. It’s only that. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  14. Before it was just her infernal curves that fretted me, but now I’ve taken her whole soul into my soul, and through her I’ve become a man! – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  15. What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  16. The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  17. (-¦)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  18. Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  19. if [God] doesn’t exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without God? – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  20. Equality is to be found only in the spiritual dignity of man – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  21. That would be the greatest misfortune of all! — To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! — Do not wish me such an evil. – Jane Austen
  22. He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake. – Augustine of Hippo
  23. Hating yourself is like hating what God loves. God loves you, so love yourself and love what God loves. – Israelmore Ayivor
  24. I am nurtured within the womb of universal consciousness. It supports my developing awareness as I witness, engage, learn, create, exchange. – Jay Woodman
  25. For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  26. Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  27. What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  28. Ah youth, youth! That’s what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  29. Everything which is of use to mankind is honourable. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  30. At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  31. Because I couldn’t bear my burden and have come to throw it on another: you suffer too, and I shall feel better! And can you love such a mean wretch? – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  32. I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  33. I’m a master of speaking silently-”all my life I’ve spoken silently and I’ve lived through entire tragedies in silence. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  34. Everyone must look out for himself, and the best time is had by those who’re best able to decieve themselves. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  35. If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  36. The sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  37. He longed to revenge himself on everyone for his own unseemliness – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  38. -¦but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur-¦ – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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