If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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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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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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 go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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 cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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