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The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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…liked to act the fool and assume all sorts of surprising roles; he would do so even when he had nothing to gain, indeed, even when it could be positively to his disadvantage…This is a quirk found in many people, even very clever ones…

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Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel

by Robin Feuer Miller

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Divine justice pales before the enormity of earthly injustice and loss.

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Bombay Stories (Vintage International)

by Saadat Hasan Manto

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Rex’s Notes & Highlights

A Russian Gentleman by Sergei Aksakov

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In his view, to punish a peasant by fines or by forced labour on the estate made the man less substantial and therefore less useful to his owner; and to separate him from his family and banish him to a distant estate was even worse, for a ...more

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Rex’s Quotes

“For decoration is not given to hide horrible things: but to decorate things already adorable.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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“Cold reason decrees it from her awful throne: and we in fairyland submit.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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“Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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“I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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“On the other hand, people who had not invested in relationships—who had prioritized their careers over families and friends or had struggled to connect for other reasons—were mostly miserable.”
― Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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