Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Beauty will save the world.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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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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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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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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