‘Do you understand, do you understand, dear sir, what it means to have nowhere left to go?’ The question Marmeladov had asked the day before suddenly came back to him. ‘For every man must have at least somewhere he can go …’


“I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.”
― The Joke
― The Joke

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”
[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― The Fountainhead
[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― The Fountainhead

“Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)”
― The Joke
― The Joke
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