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صبحتُ فجأةً لا أغضبُ من الناس، بل ما عدتُ ألاحظُ وجودَهم.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect.
But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness- a real thorough-going illness.
Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice.
In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.
There are certain things in a man's past which he does not divulge to everybody but, perhaps, only to his friends.
Again there are certain things he will not divulge even to his friends; he will divulge them perhaps only to himself, and that, too, as a secret.
But, finally, there are things which he is afraid to divulge even to himself, and every decent man has quite an accumulation of such things in his mind.
I can put it even this way: the more decent a man is, the larger will the number of such things be.
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