“...for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all... But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“A person may be smaller in success than in defeat; it depends on what he is trying to do”
― Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World
― Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World
“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“... a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“... the face of a man often hinders many people not practiced in love, from loving him.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
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