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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWhen reason fails, the devil helps!
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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 cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Beauty will save the world.
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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