Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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