To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI 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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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Beauty will save the world.
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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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