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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Amina’s Quotes

“Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

tags: enemies, fiction, friends

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“Preparations for the slaughter of mankind have always been made in the name of God or some supposed higher being which men have devised and created in their own imagination.”
― Jaroslav Hašek, The Good Soldier Švejk

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“War demanded valour even in pilfering.”
― Jaroslav Hašek, The Good Soldier Švejk

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“The principle must always rule that ideas are not born of other ideas, philosophies of other philosophies; they are a continually renewed expression of real historical development. The unity of history (what the idealists call unity of the spirit) is not a presupposition, but a continuously developing process.”
― Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks

tags: history

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“Fortunately a human being can comprehend only a certain degree of unhappiness; anything beyond it destroys him or leaves him cold. There are situations in which fear and hope become one and the same, cancel one another out, and lose themselves in a dark insensateness. How else could we know the people we love best to be in continual danger and yet go on with our daily lives as usual?”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities

tags: fear, life, love

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