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So this is the difference between living and not living
August 9, 2008 in Personal · No comments
The law of self-destruction and the law of self-preservation are equally strong in mankind!
— Fyodor Dostoevsky; The Idiot, page 375
I stumbled across that quote a year ago. It instantly became one of my favorite quotes mostly because it was such a wonderful parallel, and with the story, it made perfect sense. But I’m finding more and more that the sentiment applies in multiple arenas, and quite frequently at that.
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