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More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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.
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 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.
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.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
The soul is healed by being with children.
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
