"I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life,..." — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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I want to get to know you once for all, and I want you to know me. And then say good-bye.…

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I am too young and I’ve loved you too much.

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Yet in their absence I seemed to love them so much.

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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.




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