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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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Hell Love Maintain Suffering
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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Existence Inspirational Live Sun
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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Cease Distinguish Himself Lie Listen Love Man Respect Truth Yourself
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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Compel Respect Self Respect Yourself
You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Burn Come Back Healing
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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Human Mankind Nonsense Organism Possess Privilege Talk Truth
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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Human Being Life Man Mystery Need Philosophy Want
When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Devil Help One Liner Reason
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Action Comparison Dreams Harsh Love
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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Broken Heart Sad Unhappy Unsaid World
I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Hell Selfish Tea World
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Bow Humanity Suffering
Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Break Pleasant Right Time Wrong
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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Brain Character Guide Heart Ideas Progress Quality
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Bright Close Darkness God Grief Inspirational Night Stars
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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Beginning Encounter Human Nature Interest People Perfection Stranger

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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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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