The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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