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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYAbove 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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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 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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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 soul is healed by being with children.
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Beauty will save the world.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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