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 DOSTOEVSKYMan only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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