A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYA beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIf you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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 DOSTOEVSKYI am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWe 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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYNothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTaking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe 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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYLove in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIf there is no God, everything is permitted.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYPain 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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