It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Beauty will save the world.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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