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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Atsushi Nakajima
“因为害怕自己并非明珠而不敢刻苦琢磨,又因为有几分相信自己是明珠,而不能与瓦砾碌碌为伍,遂逐渐远离世间,疏避人群,结果在内心不断地用愤懑和羞怒饲育着自己懦弱的自尊心。世上每个人都是驯兽师,而那匹猛兽,就是每人各自的性情。对我而言,猛兽就是这自大的羞耻心了。老虎正是它。我折损自己,施苦妻儿,伤害朋友。末了,我就变成了这副与内心一致的模样。
如今想起来,我真是空费了自己那一点仅有的才能,徒然在口头上卖弄着什么“人生一事不为则太长,欲为一事则太短”的警句,可事实是,唯恐暴露才华不足的卑怯的畏惧,和厌恶钻研刻苦的惰怠,就是我的全部了。但远比我缺乏才华,可由于专念磨砺而成就堂堂诗家的,也颇不乏其人。成为老虎后的今天,我才总算看到了这一点。

——中岛敦《山月记》”
Atsushi Nakajima, 山月記 [Sangetsuki]

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

Atsushi Nakajima
“My bardzo mało rozumiemy. Żyjemy, nie znając przyczyny. Nie znając przyczyny, potulnie znosimy przeciwności losu. Takie jest przeznaczenie - nas, istot żyjących.”
Atsushi Nakajima, Opowiadania japońskie

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

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