Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe soul is healed by being with children.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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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 darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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