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#1

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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#1

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: hell, love, suffering

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#2

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: intelligence, intelligent-action

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#3

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

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#3

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: animals, cruelty, mankind

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#4

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

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#4

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing

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#5

“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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#6

“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: death, dying, fear, franz, kafka, life

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#7

“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
― Franz Kafka

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#8

“You are free and that is why you are lost.”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

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#9

“A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its own wings.”
― Charlie Wardle, Understanding & Building Confidence

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#10

“They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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#11

“it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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#12

“You misinterpret everything, even the silence.”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

tags: silence

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#13

“No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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#15

“But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings here, one like the other.” “That is true” said the priest “but that is how the guilty speak”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

tags: death, guilty, human, human-condition, life, mistakes, priest, trial

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#17

“The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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#19

“Like a dog!" he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

tags: inspirational

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