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That the force of the border could have blinded me to that glaringly obvious and simple truth reveals, in turn, something else: its tentacles had me so tightly gripped that I couldn’t see its power. “Walls cut deep into us,” writes
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“You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“Even extreme grief may ultimately vent
itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy”
― Heart of Darkness
itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy”
― Heart of Darkness
“Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
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