Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do. Crime And Punishment
Disturbance comes only from within—from our own perceptions. Book IV
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. Unpublished fragment
[…] it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunize you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other. Midnight Library
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