The soul is healed by being with children.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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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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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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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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Beauty will save the world.
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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