The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become. Fragments
Variant translation: If I had to define man it would be: a biped, ungrateful. Notes from Underground
Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable. The Post Office Girl
By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful. Letter to Polish Journalist
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