To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe 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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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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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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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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