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#1

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: sin

10933 likes

#2

“A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

682 likes

#3

“There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”
― Albert Dietrich, Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich

tags: martyrdom, misattributed-to-albert-camus, pacifism, principles, war

2491 likes

#4

“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

11840 likes

#5

“In most cases, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: people

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#6

“In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: generalizations, inner-self, people, the-heart

162 likes

#7

“Ό,τι δεν συνέβη ποτέ, είναι ό,τι δεν ποθήσαμε αρκετά.”
― Νίκος Καζαντζάκης

91 likes

#8

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

tags: beauty

1413 likes

#9

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

1340 likes

#10

“The Russian soul is a dark place.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

tags: darkness, russians, souls

164 likes

#11

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

tags: happiness, life, sea

2159 likes

#12

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
own.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

tags: education, learning, teaching

724 likes

#13

“A man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

323 likes

#14

“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

279 likes

#15

“You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

188 likes

#16

“Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

tags: greece

161 likes

#17

“I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!” - The Narrator.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

tags: awe, deep, feel, felt, goodness, heroic, knowledge, man, sacred, victory, virtue, zorba

15 likes

#18

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

tags: hell, love, suffering

5659 likes

#19

“The final conclusion of the absurdist protest is, in fact, the rejection of suicide and persistence in that hopeless encounter between human questioning and the silence of the universe.”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel

tags: curiosity-wisdom

47 likes

#20

“I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: love

716 likes

#21

“The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: pages-12-and-13

657 likes

#22

“And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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#23

“Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: love

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