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“Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“And so it is that when we are unhappy we more strongly feel the unhappiness of others; feeling is not shattered but becomes concentrated...”
― Dostoevskiy, Белые ночи

“He belongs to time, and by the horror that seizes him, he recognizes his worst enemy. Tomorrow, he was longing for tomorrow, whereas everything in him ought to reject it”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus