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.
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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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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Beauty will save the world.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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 is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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