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Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Without God all things are permitted.”

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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

“Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.”

Writing Book Ideas Subjects Terrible Solitude Findings Overcoming Bottom Holes Naked Emptiness Finding Yourself Discovering Like Something

Book:Writing

Source: Writing

“The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.”

“Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.”

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Book:A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)

Source: A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)

“If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.”

Ifs Should Writing Heaven Wonder Written Should Have Coffee Bunch Prose Liars Pondering

Book:The Girls: A Novel

Source: The Girls: A Novel

“The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.”

Writing Ideas Night Sleep Inspiring Sitting Nonsense Composer Terrific All Night Nighttime Night Time Up All Night Old Ideas Sitting Up

Author:Benjamin Britten

“In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark blind death of wheels I will be safe. I am very tired, very banal, very confused. I do not know who I am tonight. I wanted to walk until I dropped and not complete the inevitable circle of coming home.”

Knows May Home Light Wanted Dark Walks Car Safe Blind Tired Circles Who I Am Inevitable Confused Wheels Tonight Coming Home Rabbits

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.”

Life Doe Dies

Book:Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

Source: Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”

Way Life Should Bigs Able Certain Change Cases Ought Sticks Glasses Life Changing Catching Holden Holden Caulfield

Author:J. D. Salinger

“This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some sort of new perspective or fresh insight about the family on returning. That doesn't happen anymore-the days of revelation about my parents, at least, are over... its time to move on. I think we'd all appreciate that.”

Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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