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“You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground

“Leonora liked to think of her life as calm of mind, all passion spent, or, more rarely, as emotion recollected in tranquillity.”
― Barbara Pym, The Sweet Dove Died

“and where there is no love, there is no sense either.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground

“The first thing I did on leaving school was to give up the special job for which I had been destined so as to break all ties, to curse my past and shake the dust from off my feet.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground