The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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Beauty will save the world.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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