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 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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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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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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