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Explore the mind of Fyodor Dostoevsky through his most thought-provoking quotes. Dive into themes of suffering, faith, morality, and the human condition. This collection offers a glimpse into the profound insights of one of literature's greatest thinkers, alongside contemporaries like Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov.

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00:00Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
00:06The really great men must, I think, have a great sadness on earth.
00:12Fyodor Dostoevsky
00:15The best way to crush the enemy is to make him pay for everything he has.
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00:25If God does not exist, everything is permitted.
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00:34Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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00:44We can love a person dear to us with an earthly love, but we can only make our souls burn
00:50with a spiritual love.
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00:57The truth is always bitter, but God knows best.
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01:05To love someone means to see him as God intended him to be.
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01:14The mystery of human existence lies not in merely staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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01:27It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them, the character, the heart, less virtuous, but
01:34one that dictates dictates.
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01:40The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
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01:51I can't understand how one can love one's neighbors.
01:55It is just one's neighbors, with no further ado, whom one cannot love, but only tolerate.
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02:06The world says, you have seen this, now do it again.
02:11And you do it, and become a machine.
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02:19I have never been able to understand how one can love his neighbors.
02:24It is only one's neighbors, with no further ado, whom one cannot love, but only tolerate.
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02:36What is hell?
02:38I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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02:47A person who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to the point where he cannot distinguish
02:53the truth in himself, or anywhere around him, and thus he ends up not respecting himself or anyone else.
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03:04The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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03:14We are all sprung from our own vices, and our sins, and are so utterly steeped in them that we
03:20can only live by being steeped in them.
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03:27Beauty will save the world.
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03:34The darker the cross, the brighter the crown.
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03:43Life is a sanctuary, a temple, and a holy place.
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03:52Hell
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