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Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.”

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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

“Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.”

Moments Certain Views Birth Divorce Crucial Funeral Crucial Moments

Author:John le Carre

“Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage.”

States Body House Stage Return Angel Ghost Temporary Atoms Carbon Breakdown Elementals

Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules

“One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.”

Humans Ends Courses Simple Enlightenment Complexes Superiors Human Intelligence

Author:Voltaire

“Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?”

Source: Perfect You

“Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.”

Knows Want Feels Said Left Space Share

Book:Fallout

Source: Fallout

“There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.”

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Book:Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone

Source: Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone

“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.”

Minutes One Minute Fountainhead Howard Roark

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.”

Knows Science Technology Know How Magic

Author:Terry Pratchett

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