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Fool Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot…
- The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
- Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the…
- A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
- I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I…
- You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up…
- Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself…
- One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.
- It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
- I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and…
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