Truth or illusion🪽Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Franz Kafka.
“Perhaps it is better to suffer and know the truth than to be happy in a delusion.”
“I would rather keep my illusions, for they are often kinder than the truth.”
Two writers. Two philosophies. One dilemma. Is it braver to face a painful truth or to protect yourself with a comforting illusion? Dostoevsky leans toward suffering with clarity, believing awareness, no matter how sharp, is worth the wound. Kafka understands the fragility of the human heart, how sometimes illusions are the only thing keeping us steady. And maybe the real tension is this: truth makes you strong, but illusions make you survive. At some point, we all choose which one we can live with.
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