"There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is not quite the same as leafing through a thousand works fresh from psychiatric clinics. And yet the world is different from what it seems to be and we are other than how we see ourselves in our ravings."
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Nobel laureates in LiteratureEssayists from the United StatesPoets from the United StatesAntinatalistsDiplomats of Poland
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