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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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Beauty will save the world.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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