I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.

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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