When reason fails, the devil helps!
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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