Fyodor Dostoyevsky said this quote

“ Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. ”

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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 no respect he ceases to love.

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

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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.

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