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Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?” Marmeladov’s question came suddenly into his mind “for every man must have somewhere to turn…

It’s really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?

It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

That ain’t me, that ain’t my face. It wasn’t even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn’t even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.

Finally, in October 1945, a man with swampy eyes, feathers of hair, and a clean-shaven face walked into the shop. He approached the counter. “Is there someone here by the name of Leisel Meminger?””Yes, she’s in the back,” said Alex. He was hopeful, but he wanted to be sure. “May I ask who is calling on her?”Leisel came out.They hugged and cried and fell to the floor.

You can’t just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.

I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown,’ said Dill.Jem and I stopped in our tracks.Yes sir, a clown,’ he said. ‘There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.’You got it backwards, Dill,’ said Jem. ‘Clowns are sad, it’s folks that laugh at them.’Well I’m gonna be a new kind of clown. I’m gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death’s brother.

I’ve never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn’t be that hard.

I survived, but it’s not a happy ending.

I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night,Taught by the heav’nly Muse to venture downThe dark descent, and up to reascend…

We men are wretched things.