Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBeauty will save the world.
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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 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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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Beauty will save the world.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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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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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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