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And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

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It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was.

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When reason fails, the devil helps!

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Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

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If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

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Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

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Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

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He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

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Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.

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That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

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I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!

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They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

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Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

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To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.

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A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

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Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.

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But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

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People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

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But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

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