If there is no God, everything is permitted.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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.
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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