This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Pain 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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his 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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