Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.
("The Idiot")
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Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.
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And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!
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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
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Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of their careers.
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