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“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better--cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“With "The Thousand and One Nights", I learned and never forgot that we should read only those books that force us to reread them.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale

“Because reading books and having them bound represent two enormously different stages of development. First, people gradually get used to reading, over centuries naturally, but they don't take care of their books and toss them around. Having books bound signifies respect for the book; it indicates that people not only love to read, but they view it an important occupation. Nowhere in Russia has that stage been reached. Europe has been binding its books for sometime.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons