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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: intelligence, intelligent-action
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: happiness, man, trouble
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: books, literature, on-fiction
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: education, illiteracy, journalism, literature
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    Emily Dickinson
    “I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: books, literature, meaning, power, words
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: literature, novels, reading
    605 likes

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    Elia Kazan
    “The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.”
    ― Elia Kazan
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    Angela Carter
    “She learns her lesson at once; to escape slavery, she must embrace tyranny.”
    ― Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography
    tags: juliette, slavery, tyranny
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    Alexander Pope
    “Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
    Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
    ― Alexander Pope , The Rape of the Lock
    tags: beauty, poetry, soul, worth
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