"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.“
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"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."
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"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad."
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"Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death."
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"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
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