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“And all will be happy, all the millions of creatures except the hundred thousand who rule over them. For only we, we who guard the mystery, shall be unhappy. There will be thousands of millions of happy babes, and a hundred thousand sufferers who have taken upon themselves the curse of the knowledge of good and evil.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.”
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“School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.”
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“So I shall tell Mitya how you kissed my hand, but I didn't kiss yours at all. And how he will laugh!” “Vile slut! Go away!”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“If anything is wrong with your nose, they send you to Paris: there, they say, is a European specialist who cures noses. If you go to Paris, he'll look at your nose; I can only cure your right nostril, he'll tell you, for I don't cure the left nostril, that's not my speciality, but go to Vienna, there there's a specialist who will cure your left nostril.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
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