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534 Dostoevsky and "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"

The History of Literature

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The Importance of Pain in Life

"I sit up all night in my armchair at the table, doing nothing. Ideas of a sort wander through my mind and I let them come and go as they will." "In no doubt, I should have shot myself if it had not been for that little girl," he says. 'As soon as my consciousness is extinguished, the whole world will vanish to and become void like a phantom'

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