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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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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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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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