Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote
“The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.”
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