The Brothers Karamazov is the most magnificent novel ever written; the episode of the Grand Inquisitor, one of the peaks in the literature of the world, can hardly be valued too highly. Dostoevsky and Parricide
It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance. Essays
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?” Republic
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