The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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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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