The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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