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The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“Do you know what has occurred to me now? I was comparing you two. Why isn't he you? Why isn't he like you? He is not as good as you, though I love him more than you.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

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“All I wanted was a quiet life, a writing pad, books to read, flowers to gaze upon, and sometimes a little love, a little kiss…”
― Ruskin Bond, Tales of Fosterganj

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“We are not responsible for the mistakes committed by our previous generations. However, if we equate ourselves with them and regard ourselves as their heirs, we must then be ready to also share the responsibility for their mistakes.”
― S.L. Bhyrappa, ಆವರಣ [Aavarana]

tags: historical-mistakes, mistakes, responsibility

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“And you do not need my forgiveness, nor I yours; it is all the same whether you forgive or not, all the rest of my life you will remain like a wound in my soul, and I in yours - and that is proper”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me, and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day-mock me horribly!" The hot tears welled into his eyes; he tore his hand away, and, flinging himself on the divan, he buried his face in the cushions, as though he was praying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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