Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
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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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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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