She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in it I could understand; it is the enjoyment of man, of the insulted and injured, oppressed by destiny, and smarting under the sense of its injustice.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.
suffering
It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated..
suffering compassion
Man is a creature that can get used to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
perseverance suffering endurance adaptation
suffering egoism
?Kalganov ran back into the front hall, sat down in a corner, bent his head, covered his face with his hands, and began to cry. He sat like that and cried for a long time--cried as though he were still a little boy and not a man of twenty.. 'What are these people, what sort of people can there be after this!' he kept exclaiming incoherently, in bitter dejection, almost in despair. At that moment he did not even want to live in the world. 'Is it worth it, is it worth it!' the grieved young man kept exclaiming.
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If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.
truth christ
In any case civilisation has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty.
war civilisation
Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
life wisdom self-esteem knowledge ignorance originality
It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!
life wisdom
A wise man can't seriously make himself anything, only a fool makes himself anything.
Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.
life wisdom intelligence
For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.
women salvation
.. The more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person
absurd ridiculous
Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
children advice
Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible.
prison animals pets
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