To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTalking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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