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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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