Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from…

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.
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The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.
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Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew … ▶
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But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet so … ▶

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.

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