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The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.”
― David Sedaris, Naked

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“Let them look up in the sky then...! if they must be so blind, that cannot see the truth in broad daylight, but must have the whole world in darkness to see the conceit of the stars...”
― William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own

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“He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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“To be radical is to grasp things by the root.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

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“Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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