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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIf there is no God, everything is permitted.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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 live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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 only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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