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Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Compulsive gamblers do not fail to moderate their bets out of lack of will power, as we often say, but because the whole point of this kind of gambling is to maximize risk, pure risk, and so to achieve an amazing intensity of experience, for its own sake.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
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The Gambler The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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