I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIf there is no God, everything is permitted.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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