I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person liv…

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her. ✨ Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). The 10 Greatest Books of All Time, p.412, Google Publishing
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