Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
("Crime and Punishment")
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Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
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And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he dropped at once upon a conversation about her?
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Till the last moment they dress a man up in peacock's feathers, till the last moment they hope for the good and not the bad; and though they may have premonitions of the other side of the coin, for the life of them they will not utter a real word beforehand; the thought alone makes them cringe; they wave the truth away with both hands, till the very moment when the man they've decked out so finely sticks their noses in it with his own two hands.
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What is hell I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love
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