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Stalingrad

by Vasily Grossman

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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“What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it;nothing very bad could happen to you there. ”
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“The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite.”
― Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

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