“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
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[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
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“He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering.
But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.”
― Crime and Punishment
But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.”
― Crime and Punishment
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