I wanted "peace," to be left alone in my underground world. Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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“Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
— Ambrose Bierce
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"Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know."
- Catherine Fisher
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ah tumblr: eternal autumn in an app
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