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Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I’ve never been able to start or finish anything.

Notes From Underground, Dostoyevsky
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3 months ago on February 26, 2012 at 01:44pm
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I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coursely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

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6 months ago on November 17, 2011 at 06:11pm
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