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It is possible, as everybody knows, to have such memories from an even earlier age, from say two, which will continue erupting throughout one's life like points of light in the darkness, like a fragment torn out of a vast canvas which, except for this one tiny corner, has faded and disappeared.

He first saw and got to know his father only after his majority, when he came to our neighborhood with the object of settling the mater of his inheritance with him. [ . . . ] The young man was flabbergasted; he suspected dishonesty and fraud, was beside himself, and was almost like one demented.

let us suppose only for an instant, that Fyodor Pavlovich, despite his notoriety as a ne'er-do-well, was nevertheless one of the boldest and most sharp-witted men of that transitional period before the age of enlighten-ment, whereas in actual fact he was nothing but a nasty little clown.

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