"Now I'm living out my life in..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.
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“Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.”
“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.”
“I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.”
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“I don't think women are dumb.”
“The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.”
“For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.”