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“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”

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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

“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.”

Knows Believe Parent Strange Strange Things

Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign her torch trail across to the opposite side of the common like the tail-light of a low car driving away.”

Light Used Sides Common Car Praying Clothes Lows Opposites Affair Driving Tails Trails Torches Annihilation Shattering Car Driving Driving Away

Author:Graham Greene

“Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!”

Knows Victim Traitor

Book:Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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