I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
("The Brothers Karamazov")
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And you and I had better go work on the land. I want to scrape the earth with my hands.
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The marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage beast as man. So holy it is, so touching, so wise and so great a credit is to man.
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To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.
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Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.
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