If there is no God, everything is permitted.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWhat is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Beauty will save the world.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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