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‘They say that the sun gives life to the universe. The sun will rise and - look at it, isn't it dead? Everything is dead, the dead are everywhere. There are only people, and all around them is silence - that's the earth. 'People, love one another' - who said that? Whose commandment is that? The pendulum ticks insensibly, disgustingly.’

1876

‘Inertia! Oh, nature! People are alone on this earth - that's the problem! 'Is there a man alive on the field?' the Russian bogatyr cries out. And I cry out as well, though I am not a bogatyr, and no one answers.’

‘Blind, she's blind! Dead, she doesn't hear! You don't know with what paradise I would have surrounded you. The paradise was in my soul; I would have planted it all round you!
Well, you wouldn't have loved me - so be it, what of it?
Everything would have been like that, everything would have stayed like that.’