A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBesides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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