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“I wanted "peace," to be left alone in my underground world. Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe”

Book:Notes from Underground

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Notes from Underground

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

A renowned Russian novelist and a pioneer of psychological novels. His works deeply reveal the complexity of human nature and the injustice of society, having a profound impact on literature worldwide. more

“The colonel thought, as he had thought in Cologne after the last war, how, when you saw them with their faces growing out of their clothes, little different those who had fought for the wrong looked from those who had fought for the right and how the hair grew in the same way on the heads of the sons of Belial as on the heads of the sons of God. Beside the great round wheel of a lorry a British and a German soldier were showing each other photographs of their families, jerking with their thumbs the syntax of understanding.”

War Humanity Peace Camaraderie

Book:Vespers in Vienna

Source: Vespers in Vienna

“Sometimes I think that the only way to unite the nations of the world would be for the earth to be attacked by Mars. We'd all love each other like hell then.”

Peace

Book:Vespers in Vienna

Source: Vespers in Vienna

“So this is what life is really about, Twingo thought as he listened, living and dying unto God. He had seen men die on the battlefield, torn apart in a burst of entrails, and God hadn't seemed to have much to do with it, but Schwester Kasimira, reading away holy German words out of her big book, seemed to know that even those untidy deaths had been died unto God.”

War Death Peace

Book:Vespers in Vienna

Source: Vespers in Vienna

“I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.”

Humor

Author:A. Whitney Brown

“Unless we know ourselves and our history, and other people and their history, there is really no way that we can really have positive kinds of interaction where there is real understanding.”

Peace History Communication

Author:Yuri Kochiyama

“Why stay we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me: give me liberty, or give me death!”

War Action Peace Liberty Slavery

Book:Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death

Source: Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death

“Laughter is timeless, Inspiration is infinite, Peace is priceless.”

Love Life Peace Self Love Gratitude Serenity

Author:Jennifer Pierre

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