The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘beastly’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no beast could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

“I think that if the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”

nowadays almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.