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 DOSTOEVSKYTo love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Beauty will save the world.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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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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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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