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“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
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“I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
“To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.”
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“Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.”
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“The more one approaches madness, the more one equally approaches the truth, and if one does not fall into the former, one must end up necessarily in the latter.”
― Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky
― Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky
Lake’s 2025 Year in Books
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