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“Man is afraid of death because he loves life.”

Book:Demons

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Demons

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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

“Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to defile their daughters: to insinuate something obscene into the infantile hands which caress each paternal beard and cheek; to poison them, even at the risk of perishing ourselves; to do as those Spanish monks did, who drank death in order that they might persuade the French rabble which had violated their monastery to do likewise.”

Life Mankind Decadence

Book:The Angels of Perversity

Source: The Angels of Perversity

“O trabalho do homem é efémero e esvai-se como a espuma do mar... Sim, é isto mesmo. Neste planeta, o homem domesticou os animais úteis e destruiu os nocivos. Desbravou a terra, desembaraçou-a da vegetação selvática. Depois, um dia, desaparece, e a onda da vida primitiva reflui sobre ele, varrendo a obra humana.”

Nature Mankind Force Of Nature

Author:Jack London

“Mankind strives with almost infinite energy to build something that will not last infinitely! First make yourself infinite, then try to build something that can last infinitely!”

Mankind Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes Infinite Humanbeings Humanbeing Humanbehaviour

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“He lived in an era when mankind’s gifts were bent to unspeakable aims.”

Mankind Inquisition Warhammer 40k Warhammer 40000 Black Library

Author:Guy Haley

“We know that man's a fighting animal by nature, that cruelty's his birthright; and we also know that what keeps us in the pit as animals are the armies and armaments.”

Fighting Mankind Cruelty Animals Pacifism Armies Armaments

Book:Three Go Back

Source: Three Go Back

“Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes. That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.”

Mankind Nobility Ideality

Book:Moby Dick

Source: Moby Dick

“The days of mankind are nearly done. For years I have been seeing it. All we can do while we are here is live. All any human ever has been able to do is live. That is all I tried to do.”

Mankind Foresight Warhammer 40k Warhammer 40000 Living Quotes Black Library Witchery

Book:A Witch's Fate

Source: A Witch's Fate

“Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!”

Mankind Humility Perspective Service To Humanity Service Beyond Self

Book:A Christmas Carol

Source: A Christmas Carol

“As long as mankind remains egoistic and greedy in thought and action, the balance of nature will be overturned, and the world plundered and destroyed.”

Nature Mankind Future

Book:Violence and Peace

Source: Violence and Peace

“One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you most.”

Life Death Change Loss Grief

Book:The Long Goodbye

Source: The Long Goodbye

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