To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYA beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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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 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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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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