Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIf there is no God, everything is permitted.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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 degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
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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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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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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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