I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYA beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
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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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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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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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