“There was a moment of shocked disbelief and then, almost immediately, the idea of a glass costing eighty euros began to be assimilated. Dostoevsky might have had these glasses, these prices, in mind when he defined man as a creature who got used to things.”
― Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
― Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
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