To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBut how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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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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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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Beauty will save the world.
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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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