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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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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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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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.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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