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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Liz Jensen
“Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks”
Liz Jensen, Ark Baby

Bertrand Russell
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
Bertrand Russell

Haruki Murakami
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Noam Chomsky
“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying,... [o]r else you say something which in fact is true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
Noam Chomsky, Propaganda and the Public Mind

3716 Burned by Love — 19 members — last activity Oct 29, 2013 08:24AM
Devoted to novels about love, suffering, and redemption.
79311 Completists' Club — 541 members — last activity Dec 24, 2024 10:59PM
A group for those attempting to complete, or who have completed, the canons of their favourite writers. Share your canon-wide knowledge and opinion wi ...more
433813 Dreampunk! — 112 members — last activity Nov 03, 2022 07:38AM
Dreampunk is a sci-fi/fantasy subgenre that asks the question "Is this real?" and then follows up with "What does that even mean anyway?" Alice in Wo ...more
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