The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIf 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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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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 better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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