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The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.
If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.
Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!
And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.
The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.
For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.
You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.
I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.
Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.
In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.
It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.
It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.
I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.
Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.
Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.
There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.
You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.
Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.
Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.
No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.