When reason fails, the devil helps!
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTalking 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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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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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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his 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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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