What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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 say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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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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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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