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But if one looks at men in all ways—are there many good ones left?
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face--there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes.
Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself.
The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.”
― The Book of Disquiet
Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself.
The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.”
― The Book of Disquiet
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