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.
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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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 did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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