If there is no God, everything is permitted.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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