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“God is necessary, and therefore must exist... But I know that he does not and cannot exist... Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?”
― Demons
― Demons
“[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.”
― Phaedo
― Phaedo
“If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”
― Demons
― Demons
“I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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