“Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks.”
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“And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. It's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
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