They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
("The Brothers Karamazov")
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At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.
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I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?
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Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you'd think it was champagne.
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Till the last moment they dress a man up in peacock's feathers, till the last moment they hope for the good and not the bad; and though they may have premonitions of the other side of the coin, for the life of them they will not utter a real word beforehand; the thought alone makes them cringe; they wave the truth away with both hands, till the very moment when the man they've decked out so finely sticks their noses in it with his own two hands.
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