To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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.
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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