Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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