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Dostoevsky is the only person who has taught me a bit 'of psychology. (Friedrich Nietzsche quotes) Dostoevsky did not say being a Christian novelist. However, it is among those who did make an incredible step forward sensibility, thought and, I might add also, to Christian theology. (Olivier Clement) Hell is the suffering of being unable to love. (Zosima) Manifest personality is a need for self-preservation. We are not always sinful, on the contrary, we also know we should be holy. And who could ever live, if it were otherwise? Each has its origins in morality from religion, because religion is only the formula of morality. Your love has died on me as a divine gift, unexpected, sudden, after so much weariness and despair. (from a letter to Apollinarija Suslova, quoted in Corriere della Sera, 22 August 2003) It is dangerous to suppress in the proud young enthusiasm. The art and the revolt that will not die with the last man. For a moment the lies become truth. When every man has achieved happiness, there will be no time.