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.
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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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