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.
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 there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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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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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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