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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBut how could you live and have no story to tell?
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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