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“Gradually, however, i grew accustomed to this too. I grew accustomed to everything, that is, i didn't actually grow accustomed but somehow agreed of my own free will to grin and bear it.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“In every man’s memories there are such things as he will reveal not to everyone, but perhaps only to friends. There are also such as he will reveal not even to friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. Then, finally, there are such as a man is afraid to reveal even to himself, and every decent man will have accumulated quite a few things of this sort.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“She had a clear idea of many things, many things interested her, and nothing satisfied her entirely.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“I might foam at the mouth, but bring me a doll to play with, give me a cup of tea with sugar in it, and maybe I should feel appeased.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground