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“And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better -- cheap happiness or exalted sufferings?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
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I want to try the experiment whether one can, even with oneself, be perfectly open and not take fright at the whole truth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“she wouldn't poison herself with the pressures of imagined perfection.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“You know the direct, legitimate fruit of consciousness is inertia, that is, conscious sitting-with-the-hands-folded.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground