If there is no God, everything is permitted.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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Beauty will save the world.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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