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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Beauty will save the world.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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