Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here." --Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.-- Dostoevsky
The important thing is to stop lying to yourself. A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself as well as for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal, in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying- lying to others and to yourself. FYDOR DOSTOEVESKY, The Brothers Karamazov
Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth. - Fyodor Dostoyevski (1821-1881)_The Brothers Karamazov_ [1880]
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