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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
“Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deap heart. Truly great men, I think, must feel great sorrow in this world.”
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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
“In short, I deduce that all, not only great men, but even those who are even a tiny bit off the beaten track - that is, who are a tiny bit capable of saying something new - by their very nature cannot fail to be criminals - more or less, to be sure.”
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Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi
“Magic is never destroyed - the most we can do is cut ourselves off, amputate the mysterious antennae which serve to connect us with forces beyond our power of understanding.”
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The aim of life is self-development. To realise one’s nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it.”
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Patrick Trevor-Roper, The World Through Blunted Sight
“The concept of an autonomous ‘haptic’ sense, that allows the apprehension of form and space independently of optics and acoustics, is not difficult to accept, and this may simply lie buried beneath the visual assessment in all but those who are born blind. But for a minority, the haptic sense remains the primary orientation. Such people interpret their world by touch, by their bodily feelings and by their muscular sensations, and their art is thus essentially ‘expressionistic’, in contrast to the visually motivated majority who tend to paint in a more realistic style.”
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Alice Walker, Now Is The Time To Open Your Heart
“I am thinking of the moment something dies and how we instinctively know it. And of how we try not to know what we know because we do not yet understand how we are to negotiate change.”
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