

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy

“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”
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“And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of the Russian man above all) to cherish the highest ideal in his soul alongside the greatest baseness, and all that in perfect sincerity. --The Adolescent (or, The Raw Youth)”
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“Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
― Miss Julie
― Miss Julie
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