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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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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