A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBut how could you live and have no story to tell?
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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