The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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