The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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 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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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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