Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Beauty
• Understand
• Life is
• Paradise

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  • Beauty
  • Understand
  • Life is