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![Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629693671i/3137322._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
![Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629693671i/3137322._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
![James Baldwin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1343346341i/10427._UX200_CR0,47,200,200_.jpg)
“There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
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“They will want you to succeed, but never more than them. They will write their names on your leash and call you necessary, call you urgent.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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“In the city the wretched feel less sad. One can live there a hundred years without being noticed, and be dead a long time before anybody will notice it.”
― The Kreutzer Sonata
― The Kreutzer Sonata
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