The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI 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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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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