To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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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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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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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 did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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