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“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“I believe we should confront death as we confront other fears. We should contemplate our ultimate end, familiarize ourselves with it, dissect and analyze it, reason with it, and discard terrifying childhood death distortions. Let's not conclude that death is too painful to bear, that the thought will destroy us, that transiency must be denied lets the truth render life meaningless. Such denial always exacts a price - narrowing our inner life, blurring our vision, blunting our rationality. Ultimately self-deception catches up with us.”
― Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
― Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
Krishma’s 2024 Year in Books
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