To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWhen reason fails, the devil helps!
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Beauty will save the world.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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