Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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I'm on Tumblr all the time.
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
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I think human nature is eternal and constant.
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One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There's the irony of the films that glorify it and the individuals taking positions against it. It's a very confusing, confounding place.
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.
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He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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As the movement matures, a lot of us are starting to look at that conundrum. If we feel like [the media] didn’t say what we were talking about, maybe we need to also think about how we can be more intentional about messaging our actual demands.
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If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.
