I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThis is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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