A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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 am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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