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“How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?”
― Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
― Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
“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.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world.”
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Bernardo’s 2025 Year in Books
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