Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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 someone means to see them as God intended them.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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