If there is no God, everything is permitted.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe 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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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek 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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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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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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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