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 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 only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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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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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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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Beauty will save the world.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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.
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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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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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