To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWhat is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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