Status Updates From Vera: or, The Nihilists

what in the nikolai lantsov is this

This isn’t that good, guys

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
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I would much sooner talk scandal in a drawing-room than treason in a cellar.
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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
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How strange it is, the most real parts of one’s life always seem to be a dream!
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One can live for years sometimes, without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into a single hour.

I don’t think much of ideas myself; I’ve got on well enough in life without ‘em; why shouldn’t my children?
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there is so much else to do in the world but love
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There is no limit, it seems, to the tyranny of one man; but there shall be a limit to the suffering of a whole people.
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Experience, the name men give to their mistakes. I never commit any
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For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce.