A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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 cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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