But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all–but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now–this very instant–your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man–and that this is certain, certain! Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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More Quotes By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  1. Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having...

  2. What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

  3. The soul is healed by being with children.

  4. I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.

  5. To love someone means to see them as God intended them.

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