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Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.
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The consciousness of life is higher than life.
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Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.
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Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it - that is what you must do.
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Everything seems stupid when it fails.
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Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your doings. Fear not that it will wear away your work and hinder its being accomplished. Do not say, 'Sin is mighty, wickedness is mighty, evil environment is mighty, and we are lonely and helpless, and evil environment is wearing us away and hindering our good work from being done.' Fly from that dejection, children!
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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 in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!
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I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the use of praying? - it's only a sin! It is strange, too, that I am not sleepy: in great, too great sorrow, after the first outbursts one is always sleepy. Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it si the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out... I lay down on the sofa but I did not sleep...
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.
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Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.
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It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.
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Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.
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I am crazy about mysterious things.
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...chance may do anything.
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To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.
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If there were no God, he would have to be invented.
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What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.
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Be the sun and all will see you.
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