Fyodor Dostoyevsky said this quote

“ The instinct of self-preservation and the urge to self-destruction are equally strong in man! The Devil has equal a sway over humanity as God until a time still unknown to us. ”

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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.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The soul is healed by being with children.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky