Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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