A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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