The Prophet
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And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.


“You have to love what you can always come back to, what’s home waiting for you.”
― The Prince of Tides
― The Prince of Tides

“suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground

“Undoubtedly," it will be said, "religious, moral, philosophical and juridical ideas have been modified in the course of historical development. But religion, morality, philosophy, political science, and law, constantly survived this change.
"There are besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.”
― The Communist Manifesto
"There are besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.”
― The Communist Manifesto

“This has been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then come languor and decay.”
― The Time Machine (annotated): by H. G. Wells
― The Time Machine (annotated): by H. G. Wells

“It's senseless to ask, considering this letter won't arrive for 14 days, but maybe this will only be a small addition to the general senselessness of my request: do not let yourself be scared away from me --- if it is at all possible in this unsteady world (where, when one is torn away, one is simply torn away and can't do anything about it) --- even if I disappoint you once or a thousand times or right now or perhaps always right now. Incidentally, that isn't a request and isn't directed to you at all; I don't know where it is directed. It's simply the oppressed breathing of an oppressed chest.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena

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