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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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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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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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Beauty will save the world.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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