"It is better to be unhappy and…" — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Es mejor ser infeliz y conocer lo peor, que ser feliz en el paraíso de los tontos.

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“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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