Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYLove in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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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 only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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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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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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