To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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 soul is healed by being with children.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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