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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan 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.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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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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