A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIf you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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