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 DOSTOEVSKYThe 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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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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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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