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“I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased. However, I don't know beans about my disease, and I am not sure what is bothering me. I don't treat it and never have, though I respect medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, let's say sufficiently so to respect medicine. (I am educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am.) No, I refuse to treat it out of spite. You probably will not understand that. Well, but I understand it. Of course I can't explain to you just whom I am annoying in this case by my spite. I am perfectly well aware that I cannot "get even" with the doctors by not consulting them. I know better than anyone that I thereby injure only myself and no one else. But still, if I don't treat it, its is out of spite. My liver is bad, well then-- let it get even worse!”
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
― Dune
― Dune
“But what are you? Buddhist? Japanese? Communist? What?’ ‘I’m nothing.’ ‘Can you be nothing?’ I never knew how to answer that question when I was asked it as a child, because the wording troubled me. Can you be nothing? I will be nothing.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. “Immortality” may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.”
― A Mathematician's Apology
― A Mathematician's Apology
“-Πώς πήγε το σχολείο;
-Πολύ καλά. Έμαθα να μιλώ, να απαντώ, και να σκέπτομαι με συλλαβές.
-Τότε γιατί κλαις;
-Είναι οι συλλαβές. Πονάω, όταν κόβω τις λέξεις στη μέση.
-Θα συνηθίσεις, μου λέει η Φανή. Θα συνηθίσεις.
ΤΕΛΟΣ”
― Kassandra and the Wolf
-Πολύ καλά. Έμαθα να μιλώ, να απαντώ, και να σκέπτομαι με συλλαβές.
-Τότε γιατί κλαις;
-Είναι οι συλλαβές. Πονάω, όταν κόβω τις λέξεις στη μέση.
-Θα συνηθίσεις, μου λέει η Φανή. Θα συνηθίσεις.
ΤΕΛΟΣ”
― Kassandra and the Wolf
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