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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYYou will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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If 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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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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