You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek 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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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