The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
("The Brothers Karamazov")
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So that you remember that you kissed my hand, but I didn't kiss yours.
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Let me be accursed. Let me be vile and base, only let me kiss the hem of the veil in which my God is shrouded.
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If it were desired to reduce man to nothing, it would be necessary only to give his work a character of uselessness
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I understand solidarity in sin among men; solidarity in retribution I also understand; but what solidarity in sin do little children have? ...And if the suffering of children goes to make up the sum of suffering needed to buy truth, then I assert beforehand that the whole of truth is not worth such a price.
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