What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYLove in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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