Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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Beauty 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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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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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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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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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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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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