One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.


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Love life more than the meaning of it?
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The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dreams, I often make pl...
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And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that...
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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 li...
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Kto twierdzi że kocha w ogóle całą ludzkość, kocha prawie zawsze tylko siebie
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In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human id...
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God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his he...
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One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays a...
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It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowi...
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I believe that to execute a man for murder is to punish him immeasurably more dreadfully than is equ...
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
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Something new and unexpected, something hitherto unknown and undreamt of, had taken place in him. He...
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Oh, tell me, who first declared, who first proclaimed that man only does nasty things because he doe...
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Beauty will save the world.
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The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and witho...
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Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly...
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You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the ...
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Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of anyone. For no one can judge a criminal until he...
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Without God all things are permitted.
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And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. W...
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God knows what is in me in place of me.
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Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult...
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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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Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and var...
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And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.
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Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, ...
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What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
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Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - th...
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People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few...
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Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.
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In a morbid condition, dreams are often distinguished by their remarkably graphic, vivid, and extrem...
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What do you think?" shouted Razumihin, louder than ever, "you think I am attacking them for talking ...
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Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
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Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" M...
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There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there...
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Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, some...
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
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Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.
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A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.
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And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling ...
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all t...
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, some...
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I was ready to leave with every load, with every worthy individual of respectable appearance hiring ...
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The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distingui...
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One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; h...
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Man does not live by bread alone.
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Christ knew that by bread alone you cannot reanimate man. If there were no spiritual life, no ideal ...
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Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst ch...
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It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of dou...
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Why did you come in to-night with your heads in the air? 'Make way, we are coming! Give us every rig...
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