So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship. The Karamazov Brothers
A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season. Book V
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. The Waves
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. The Mysterious Stranger
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