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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
    tags: night, youth
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
    tags: happiness, lasting, pleasure, temporary
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: change, fear-of-change
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: self-realization
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: crime, punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: life, perspective, social-norms, society
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: life, stupidity
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
    evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows
    disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the
    shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings.
    Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because
    of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
    tags: evil, good
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
    tags: ask, power
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
    tags: censorship
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
    tags: eyes, lies, tongue, truth
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
    tags: the-master-and-margarita
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    Franz Kafka
    “It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Trial
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    Franz Kafka
    “The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, lost in a forest remote from all human habitation.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Trial
    tags: existentialism, kafka, metamorphosis, trial
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    Franz Kafka
    “What am I doing here in this endless winter?”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit
    tags: silence
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    Robert W. Chambers
    “Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.

    Stranger: Indeed?

    Cassilda: Indeed it’s time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.

    Stranger: I wear no mask.

    Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!

    -- The King in Yellow, Act I, Scene 2.”
    ― Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
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    Albert Camus
    “But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.”
    ― Albert Camus, A Happy Death
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: fahrenheit-451
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    Ray Bradbury
    “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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    George Orwell
    “Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    George Orwell
    “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: secrets
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    George Orwell
    “I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984, nineteen-eighty-four
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    Anthony Burgess
    “When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
    tags: choice, life, man
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    Anthony Burgess
    “Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
    tags: dystopia
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    Anthony Burgess
    “We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
    tags: writing
    1061 likes



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