Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYPain 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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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 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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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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