Hell is the inability to love.
("The Brothers Karamazov")
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It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sometimes even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems to be crazy, a man must set an example, and so draw men's souls out of their solitude and spur them to some act of brotherly love, that the great idea may not die.
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Oh, as I stood above the Neva this morning at dawn I knew I was a villian.
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Humanity will find in itself the power to live for virtue even without believing in immortality. It will find it in love for freedom, for equality, for fraternity.
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I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.
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For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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