It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Beauty will save the world.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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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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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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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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