A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWhen reason fails, the devil helps!
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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