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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThis is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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 cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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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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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Beauty will save the world.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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