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raf

10:31

Hi, kindly help me with this query:
https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/14583/origin-of-the-quote-sadness-is-caused-by-intelligence

Q: Origin of the quote "Sadness is caused by intelligence"?

In social media (1)(2)(3), I have found: "Sadness is caused by intelligence, the more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn't understand them." — Charles Bukowski. But yet I have no reliable source that can confirm me. I will be grateful if you please tell me about t...

quote-identification

Tsundoku

11:00

@raf We've seen the question, but the fact that someone somewhere on the internet attributes a quote to a specific author does not imply that the attribution is correct, especially if you can find that attribution only on social media. Quotes get misattributed all the time.

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Bookworm

12:15

Q: How did contemporary female readers respond to the sexual violence in the Contes de la Bécasse?

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