I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWhen reason fails, the devil helps!
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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 is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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