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Ο ηλίθιος

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”
― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

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“The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

tags: anxiety, class, irrationality, nirvana, reason, society, struggle, utopia

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“When I don't have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.”
― Brian Richardson

tags: anxiety, worry

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.”
― Julien Smith, The Flinch

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