The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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 greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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