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Atlas Shrugged
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Ernest Hemingway
“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after and judged by these standards, which I do not defend, the bullfight is very normal to me because I feel very fine while it is going on and have a feeling of life and death and mortality and immortality, and after it is over I feel very sad but also very fine.”
Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

Isaac Babel
“If the world could write itself, it would write like Tolstoy.”
Isaac Babel

Samuel Johnson
“Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.”
Samuel Johnson
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