I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky quotes
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
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Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.