It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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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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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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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