“If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.”
― Dolores Claiborne/Insomnia
― Dolores Claiborne/Insomnia
“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising
“I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.”
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“Dreams, as we all know, are very queer things: some parts are presented with appalling vividness, with details worked up with the elaborate finish of jewellery, while others one gallops through, as it were, without noticing them at all, as, for instance, through space and time. Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams, what utterly incomprehensible things happen to it!”
― The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
― The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
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