I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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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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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Beauty will save the world.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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