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 DOSTOEVSKYThe cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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 greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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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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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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