To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYPain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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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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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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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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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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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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