The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBesides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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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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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Beauty will save the world.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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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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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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