A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime.
("Doctor Zhivago")
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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