Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYA beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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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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