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Famous Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
“There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.”
“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
“They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!”
“For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.”
“I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.”
“God is the pain of the fear of death”
“Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.”
“I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.”
“you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will”
“Can a man of perception respect himself at all?”
“A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.”
“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
“Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.”