Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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Donald Trump’s rabid animosity energised The Apprentice. The show’s ethos was supposedly aspirational, but success proved less telegenic than the gloating spectacle of failure: at the climax of every episode he eliminated losers by abusively booming: “You’re fired!” This catchphrase became a clarion call.
~ Peter Conrad via The Guardian
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Depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow – or like a faithful wife.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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The characteristics of our romantics are to understand everything, to see everything and to see it often incomparably more clearly than our most realistic minds see it; to refuse to accept anyone or anything, but at the same time not to despise anything.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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very time someone complains that our new prime minister is boring, I rue the day that politics became a performing art.
~ Peter Conrad via The Guardian
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Thus people – so it seems to me – become good friends from sheer ennui.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool — a faculty unheard of nowadays.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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