To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBesides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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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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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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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 soul is healed by being with children.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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