If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
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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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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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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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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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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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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