What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo love someone means to see them as God intended them.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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