I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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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 man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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