Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYKilling 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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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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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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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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