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 DOSTOEVSKYMan grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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