It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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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 is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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