To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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