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7 months ago

He has a noble nature and a kind heart. He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely. Sometimes, though, he is not at all morbid, but simply cold and inhumanly callous; it's though he were alternating between two characters.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment


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1 year ago

lucidamente pazzo, follemente calmo, un cacciatore incantato ubriaco fradicio

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita (1955)


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9 months ago
I Saw Clearly That So Long As I Was Still A Human Being And Not Nothingness, I Was Alive And So Could
I Saw Clearly That So Long As I Was Still A Human Being And Not Nothingness, I Was Alive And So Could
I Saw Clearly That So Long As I Was Still A Human Being And Not Nothingness, I Was Alive And So Could
I Saw Clearly That So Long As I Was Still A Human Being And Not Nothingness, I Was Alive And So Could

“I saw clearly that so long as I was still a human being and not nothingness, I was alive and so could suffer, be angry and feel shame at my actions.”

-Fyodor Dostoevsky


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