To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan 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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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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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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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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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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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