Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBeauty will save the world.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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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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