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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander

“I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment

“We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment

“I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena

“the most offensive is not their lying—one can always forgive lying—lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth—what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying…”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
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