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 DOSTOEVSKYI am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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 soul is healed by being with children.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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