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Fyodor Dostoyevsky — Portrait after a picture by Vasily Perov (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Russian novelist

1821–1881

55 quotes, most often on Love, Truth & Lies and God.

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.
The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book III: The Sensualists, Chapter IIIIn context
- Beauty
- Good & Evil
People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that’s a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book V: Pro and Contra, Chapter IVIn context
- Animals
- Good & Evil
I think if the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book V: Pro and Contra, Chapter IVIn context
- God
- Good & Evil

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