The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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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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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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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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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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