If there is no God, everything is permitted.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
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.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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 soul is healed by being with children.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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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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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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