Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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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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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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