“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.”
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“I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness- a real thorough-going illness.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.”
― Waiting for God
― Waiting for God
“Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.”
― Gravity and Grace
― Gravity and Grace
“Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.”
― Narcissus and Goldmund
― Narcissus and Goldmund
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