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More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
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.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
Oh I’ve plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
