I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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