“Beauty is very difficult to judge. I’m not ready for it yet. Beauty is a mystery.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“[Subject] to mass elections, those members of society with little or no moral inhibition against taking another man's property, habitual amoralists who are most talented in assembling majorities from a multitude of morally uninhibited and mutually incompatible popular demains, efficient demagogues, will tend to gain entrance in and rise to the top of government.”
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“You know, it is beyond me that one can one can walk past a tree and not feel happy seeing it? How can one talk to a man and not feel happy loving him?... there are so many wonderful things at every step and turn that even the most disoriented person would find wonderful! Observe a child, observe the rising sun, observe the grass, the way it grows, look into the eyes that look back at you and love you”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“A wind came across the ocean, sweeping with it a pall of fine white ash. The ash fell into the sea and into the breakers. The breakers washed dead shrimp ashore with the driftwood. Then they washed up the whiting. The shark swam out to his deepest waters and brooded in the cold clean currents. He was very hungry that season.”
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