The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWe 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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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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