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“It's best to give while your hand is still warm.”
― Philip Roth, Everyman

“There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.”
― Philip Roth, Everyman

“My God, he thought, the man I once was!

The life that surrounded me! The force that was mine! No "otherness" to be felt anywhere! Once upon a time I was a full human being.”
― Philip Roth, Everyman

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“I've never been a coward at heart, although I've always been a coward in action”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Love life more than the meaning of it?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“I want to suffer so that I may love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Everything passes, only truth remains.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“the most offensive is not their lying—one can always forgive lying—lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth—what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying…”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

“He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!”
― Robert Browning