Aniel

“... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“quanto
mais aprendia, mais obrigado me via a reconhecer a minha condição de
criatura ridícula.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“Question: If the beast is already in your house, does that make the wilderness safer?”
― Noor Naga, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English