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 DOSTOEVSKYIf you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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 is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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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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Beauty will save the world.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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