To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMuch unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYPeople 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 DOSTOEVSKYTalking 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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo love someone means to see them as God intended them.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWhen reason fails, the devil helps!
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYA hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYNothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTaking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIf there is no God, everything is permitted.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI 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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