I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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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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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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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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