"Every man looks out for himself, and..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.
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“The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all.”
“Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!”
“I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!”
More on Self Deception
“Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.”
“We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.”
“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”
More on Happiness
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
“If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.”
“A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.”