4 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevski

  • Author Fyodor Dostoyevski
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    And now we have a different conclusion based on psychology...you can use it to arrive at whatever conclusions suit you best. It all depends on who uses it. Psychology tempts even the most responsible and serious people to create fictions, and they cannot really be blamed for that.

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  • Author Fyodor Dostoyevski
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    People often describe such human cruelty as "bestial", but that's of course, unfair to animals, for no beast could ever be as cruel as man, I mean as refinedly and artistically cruel. The tiger simply gnaws and tears his victim to pieces because that's all he knows. It would never occur to a tiger to nail people to fences by their ears, even if he were able to do it.

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