Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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Self-preservation is an important thing to me.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
