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“Everyone gets the devil he deserves.”
― The Club Dumas
― The Club Dumas
“Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.”
― Parade's End
― Parade's End
“I’ve read Joyce and Sartre and Beckett and the rest, and every atom in me rejects what they say. They strike me as liars and fools. I don’t think they’re dishonest so much as hopelessly tired and defeated.”
― The Glass Cage
― The Glass Cage
“Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.”
― A Criminal History of Mankind
― A Criminal History of Mankind
“You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman...
'You never can tell...' he answered.
'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly.
'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
― The Master and Margarita
'You never can tell...' he answered.
'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly.
'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
― The Master and Margarita
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