"It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise."

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Source : Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Idiot (English French edition illustrated): L’Idiot (Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.1139, Clap Publishing, LLC.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Unhappy Quotes #Paradise Quotes #Fool Quotes

“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.”
“Your life within God's arms, Your dance within God's arms, Is already Perfect!”
“There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss.”
“Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.”
“He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.”
“Your true image is not something to get; it is a reality to discover.”
“The fascinating thing about the studio was that there was no story department. They would put a little notice up on the bulletin board saying: 'The next Oswald will take place at the North Pole. Anybody having any gags, please turn them in before such a date.' If you turned in gags regularly, the way Tex Avery, Cal Howard, Jack Carr and two or three others of us did, you'd be called into the gag meeting. The group would go into Walt's office and talk about whatever the subject of the cartoon was. Walt would put it into some kind of form and that was the story--no scripts, no storyboards.”

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