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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWhen reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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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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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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I 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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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Beauty will save the world.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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