Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan 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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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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 greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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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.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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