Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe 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.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Beauty will save the world.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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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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 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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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