To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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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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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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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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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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