I Heart Classics Quotes: Anton Chekhov
I Heart Classic Quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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Currently Reading.
(I’m only 245 pages in, but so far it’s amazing!)
The dreamer is not a human being, but a creature of an intermediate sort. For the most part he settles in some inaccessible corner, as though hiding from the light of day; once he slips into his corner, he grows to it like a snail, or, anyway, he is in that respect very much like that remarkable creature, which is an animal and a house both at once, and is called a tortoise.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (White Nights)
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