The people who have nothing to lock up are the happy ones, aren't they?
("Crime and Punishment")
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Hesitation, anxiety, the struggle between belief and disbelief-all that is sometimes such a torment for a conscientious man... that it's better to hang oneself.Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end by eating up one another, that's what I prophecy.
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Well, set the monster free...he's begun his hymn, because he finds it all so easy...but I'd give a quadrillion quadrillion for two seconds of joy.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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I believe this is so and I'm prepared to vouch for it, because it seems to me that the meaning of man's life consists in proving to himself every minute that he's a man and not a piano key. And man will keep proving it and paying for it with his own skin; he will turn into a troglodyte if need be. And, since this is so, I cannot help rejoicing that things are still the way they are and that, for the time being, nobody knows worth a damn what determines our desires.
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Our own humble and meek ones, fasters and keepers of silence, will arise and go forth for a great deed.
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