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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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 in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Beauty will save the world.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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 live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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