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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.
Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.
I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.
If he's alive, everything is in his power! Whose fault is it that he doesn't understand that?
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.
you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will
For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.
Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.
Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.
Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.
You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.
One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.
If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.
It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.
My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.
What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.
He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.
I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with
Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?
Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.
They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.
He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.
--you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.
Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.
A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.
There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor
How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?
I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?
It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.