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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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Couple God Intend Love
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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Human Being Life Man Mystery Need Philosophy Want
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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Cease Hope Life Live One Liner
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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Brain Character Guide Heart Ideas Progress Quality
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Act Genius Intelligence
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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Compel Respect Self Respect Yourself
A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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Beast Cruel Human Being never
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Difficult Doer Easy Evil Understand
I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Alone Loneliness Thought
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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Creation Devil Existence Image Man
I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Hell Selfish Tea World
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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

Human Mankind Nonsense Organism Possess Privilege Talk Truth
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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Cruel Man Mankind Offensive People Speak Terrible
You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Burn Come Back Healing
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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Awful Beauty Devil Fight God Heart Man Mystery Terrible
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Civilization Degree Enter Judgment Prison Society

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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