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Notes from Underground

 Fyodor Dostoevsky
 

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1. “Ha, ha, ha! Next you'll be finding pleasure in a toothache!” you will exclaim, laughing.
“And why not? There is also pleasure in a toothache,” I will answer.
 
 
2. 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.
 
 
3. Who wants to want according to a little table?
 
 
4. Here it is, here it is at last, the encounter with reality. . . . All is lost now!
 
 
5. I sensed vaguely that she was going to pay dearly for it all. . . .
 
 
 
 
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