Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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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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Beauty will save the world.
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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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 am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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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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