“Fear of aesthetics is the first sign of powerlessness”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“The intellectual part of his nature was already effaced; he had power only to feel, and feeling was torment. He was conscious of motion. Encompassed in a luminous cloud, of which he was now merely the fiery heart, without material substance, he swung through unthinkable arcs of oscillation, like a vast pendulum.”
― An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
― An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
“Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
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