The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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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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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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