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The more I read Ippolit's deliriums the more I think that he is a proto type of Ivan Karamazov

I am indeed not fond of being with adults, with people, with grown ups -and have long noticed this- I'm not fond of it, because I don't know how to be with them. No matter what they say to me, no matter how kind they are to me, for some reason I always find awkward to be with them, and I'm dreadfully glad when I can get away from my companions, and my companions have always been children.