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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBesides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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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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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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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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