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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWhen reason fails, the devil helps!
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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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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 is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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