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The story of a regeneration of convictions - can any story in the entire field of literature be more filled with thrilling and all-absorbing interest?
— Lev Shestov
Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
— Bill Bailey
Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things.
— Jimi Hendrix
Stop wasting time! Time is growing short for you to accomplish what you came to Earth to do!
— Dolores Cannon
It is not man who pursues truth, but truth man.
— Lev Shestov
One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely.
— Lev Shestov
Miss Hermione Jean Granger, I leave my copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in the hope that she will find it entertaining and instructive.
— J.K. Rowling
To praise oneself is considered improper, immodest; to praise one's own sect, one's own philosophy, is considered the highest duty.
— Lev Shestov
If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.
— Lev Shestov
But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.
— Lev Shestov
Dostoevsky's nature was two-fold, like Spinoza's, and like that of nearly all those who try to awaken humanity from its torpor.
— Lev Shestov
Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.
— Sidney Poitier
He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's destiny.
— Lev Shestov
I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
She was a genius, my mother.
— Sally Kirkland
All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.
— Andre Aciman
At one point you think, well, it's funny, I could just be a starving actor. So if somebody were to pull the plug, there'd be no room for complaint.
— Michael Fassbender
Whatever our definition of truth may be, we can never renounce Descartes' clare et distincte (clarity and distinctness).
— Lev Shestov
If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.
— Lev Shestov
More striking still, a broken man is generally deprived of everything except the ability to acknowledge and feel his position.
— Lev Shestov