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I don’t think that quotation means what we think it means. Beauty will not save the world and anyway Dostoevsky didn’t say it and anyways
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In my mid-20s — half an age (mine) and still nearly nil on maturity ago — I noticed a thing that at the time was
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Inconvenient Truth
Near the start of The Shawshank Redemption Andy Dufresne is on the witness stand, losing a battle for his life he will ultimately win. The
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