“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Simplified Meaning:
People are complex and hard to understand. Figuring them out can take a lifetime, but it's not a waste of time. The speaker is trying to understand people better because they want to be a better person.
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