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“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“The Savage nodded, frowning. "You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows or outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them...But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy."
..."What you need," the Savage went on, "is something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here.”
― Brave New World
..."What you need," the Savage went on, "is something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here.”
― Brave New World
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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