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.
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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Talking 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.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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I 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.
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