"in the newspapers I read a biography..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night.
More by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth”
“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.”
“I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.”
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“The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.”
“The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.”
“Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.”
More on Individuality
“A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.”
“He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.”
“THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?”