"There is nothing more alluring to man than……" — Fyodor Dostoevsky
"There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing."
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585 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
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If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto…
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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in…
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who…
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There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.
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Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass…
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Only through suffering can we find ourselves.
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If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work…
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all…
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There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory,…
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The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in…
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I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all…
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When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.
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Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did
— Diego Rivera
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As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened…
— Carl Sagan
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No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived,…
— Unknown Author
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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be…
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The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be…
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It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now…
— Rachel Held Evans
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Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner,…
— Angela Davis
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There's still such chaos in me. Still so little firmly outlined. Just like my face: a formless mass that only…
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