A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYPeople speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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