The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWhat is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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 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 man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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