Mahmoud basyoni
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“Would you believe, they insist on complete absence of individualism and that’s just what they relish! Not to be themselves, to be as unlike themselves as they can. That’s what they regard as the highest point of progress.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Tell me, Francis, do you buy your one-liners wholesale? Only they’re well past their sell-by.”
― Resurrection Men
― Resurrection Men
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth,”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Whatever may come to me, whether I come to ruin or not, I want to be alone. Forget me altogether, it’s better.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“I only believe in my leading idea that men are in general divided by a law of nature into two categories, inferior (ordinary), that is, so to say, material that serves only to reproduce its kind, and men who have the gift or the talent to utter a new word.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
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