"Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit...." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions.
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“Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.”
“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.”
“Everything passes, only truth remains.”
More on Doubt
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”
“Doubt can only be removed by action.”
“The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.”
More on Questions
“It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.”
“If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? Why is 'phonics' not spelled the way it sounds? How come abbreviated is such a long word?”
“I worked in a health food store once. A guy asked me, 'If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?”