A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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 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 say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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