Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYYou will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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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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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
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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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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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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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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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