Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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If Apollo caught sight of him outside or near a window during the light of day, Talon would be nothing more than a strip of fried bacon on the sidewalk. Extra-crispy Celt didn’t appeal to him in the least. ’ (Talon)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

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He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.

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There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

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Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

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