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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYNothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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 degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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 did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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