“I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.”
― Dead Souls
― Dead Souls
“I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.”
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“They cannot understand as yet that we are not fighting a political party but a sect of murderers of all contemporary spiritual culture.”
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“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.”
― Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
― Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
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