I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYYou will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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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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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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