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if [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without God?

if [God] doesn’t exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without God?
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  3. If God does not exist, everything is permitted. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  4. The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. Consciousness is man’s greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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  16. Man is a vile creature! – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  17. Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time! – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  18. Man is unhappy because he doesn’t know he’s happy. It’s only that. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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  23. Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  24. Equality is to be found only in the spiritual dignity of man – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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  37. The queen who mended her stockings in prison must have looked every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  38. Crime? What crime? … My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman … and you call that a crime? – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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