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I've always doubted Dostoevsky's reputation as a fearsome author because most of the time his characters or the book get salvaged by some deus ex machina obtrusion of Christianity and the false glow of a salvation that I don't even think he believes
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“The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made of them day after day, hour after hour.”
― Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets
― Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets
“That is what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“A cage went in search of a bird.”
― The Zürau Aphorisms
― The Zürau Aphorisms
“He has the feeling that merely by being alive he is blocking his own way. From this sense of hindrance, in turn, he deduces the proof that he is alive.”
― The Zürau Aphorisms
― The Zürau Aphorisms
“A simple statement is bound to be untrue. One that is not simple cannot be utilized.”
― The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Vol. 14
― The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Vol. 14
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