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There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious. To become oblivious in dreams was
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“Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.”
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“Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
― The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
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