To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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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 Dostoyevsky

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In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The more I detest men individually the more ardent
becomes my love for humanity.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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