A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTaking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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 did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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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 greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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