The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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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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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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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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