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“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part I

“One must keep a store of common sense,” said Tchitchikov, “and consult one’s common sense at every minute, have a friendly conversation with it.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls - Full Version (Annotated)

“You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.”
― Nikolai Gogol , Dead Souls

“You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. The things these scribblers write!”
― Nikolai V. Gogol, Dead Souls

“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
― Simone Weil

“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
― Simone Weil

“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
― Simone Weil

“After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover.”
― Jaroslav Hašek, The Good Soldier Švejk

“Troll, be thyself - and thyself alone!”
― Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt

“My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“man is, truly, an animal, / and yet, on turning round, he hits me in the head with his sadness”
― César Vallejo, Poemas en prosa / Poemas humanos / España, aparta de mí este cáliz

“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”
― Margaret Mead

“You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.”
― Margaret Mead

“Since it is difficult to distinguish true prophets from false, it is as well to regard all prophets with suspicion”
― Primo Levi, If This Is a Man / The Truce

“The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right

“True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.”
― Bell Hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics