The consciousness of life is higher than life. ✨ Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ga…

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The consciousness of life is higher than life. ✨ Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gary Saul Morson, Kenneth Lantz (2009). A Writer's Diary, p.394, Northwestern University Press
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