POINTS TO PONDER LXXI

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

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts. No animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky