I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWe 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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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 say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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