"It's a burden to us even to..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.
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“Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.”
“A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.”
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“A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.”
“Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.”
“Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.”