“The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with
disappointment to the ground”
― Beautiful Disaster
disappointment to the ground”
― Beautiful Disaster
“Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”
― 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
“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
― Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays
― Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays
“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Solstice
― Solstice
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