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Thus with cautious steps, among deceived enemies, I circulated, plated with poetry, armored with rhymes, stout with another man’s song, stiff with cardboard, bullet-proof at long last.
Vladimir Nabokov • Pale Fire (Vintage International)
trepidation,
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
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But Death—the enemy who is not to be bought off or deceived, and on whom no money, and no treachery has any effect—presented
Charles Dickens • A Child's History of England
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Dostoevsky on the importance of understanding your enemy:
"While nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer, nothing is more difficult than to understand him"
I looked up, and did not recognize the same man; before, I had seen death in his face; but now he was alive, and I recognized in him the presence of God.
Leo Tolstoy • The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy
Dostoevsky’s achievement is that he is able to put words of hate into the mouths of basically hateful people without destroying the reader’s sympathy for them.
Fyodor Dostoevsky • The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics)
