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"I’ve read “dream of a ridiculous man” so far following readings of The Death of Ivan Ilyich and “Master and Man” by Tolstoy thinking this would be a good accompaniment. It was decent as a short story on its own and thought provoking as expected from Dostoevsky but it’s nowhere near as good as the other two titles." — 8 hours, 12 min ago
"I’ve read “dream of a ridiculous man” so far following readings of The Death of Ivan Ilyich and “Master and Man” by Tolstoy thinking this would be a good accompaniment. It was decent as a short story on its own and thought provoking as expected from Dostoevsky but it’s nowhere near as good as the other two titles." — 8 hours, 12 min ago
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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“But oppositions have the illimitable range of objections at command, which need never stop short at the boundary of knowledge, but can draw forever on the vasts of ignorance.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
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“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.”
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Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.”
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“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”
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