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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.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mystery
Unravelled
Life
Fyodor Dostoevsky
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Conscience
Suffer
Mistake
Prison
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Destroy
Entirely
Punishment
Meaning
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Oh I’ve plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Plenty
Time
Entirely
Own
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mystery
Great
Gradually
Joy
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great
Men
Experience
Sorrow
Earth
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Learning
Dearly
Apprenticeship
Love
Forever
Fyodor Dostoevsky
If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Everything
Alive
Fault
Understand
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anyone who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anyone
Appease
Conscience
Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Glimpse
Analyzing
Talking
Good
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The soul is healed by being with children.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Soul
Healed
Children
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Seems
Second
Made
Life
Accumulated
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love
Harsh
Dreadful
Dreams
Fyodor Dostoevsky
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suffer
Otherwise
Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Himself
Believes
Recognize
Respect
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty
Terrible
God
Fighting
Heart
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Exist
Created
Own
Image
Likeness
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Believe
Evil
Normal
Mankind
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Money is coined liberty.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Liberty
Money
Coined
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Philosophy
Life
Paid
Patience
Effort
Fyodor Dostoevsky