If there is no God, everything is permitted.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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