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“In my opinion, it's much sillier to be astonished at nothing than to be astonished at everything. And what's more: to be astonished at nothing is almost the same thing as to respect nothing. And a silly man is not capable of showing respect.”

“They locked up all their fools in a special building to reassure themselves that they're the sane ones. But really, locking somebody else up in a madhouse doesn't prove that you have brains. 'K. lost his mind, that means that we are sane. No, that isn't what that means.”

“In my opinion, the one who's smarter than all the rest is the one who calls himself a fool at least once a month - an unheard of talent nowadays! Before, a fool knew once a year at the very least that he was a fool, but now nothing doing. And they've muddled things so that you can't tell a fool from an intelligent person.“

“I love him; but that will pass, it must pass, it cannot but pass; it's already passing, I can sense it ... Who knows, perhaps it will even end today, because I hate him, because he's had a good laugh at my expense (…)”

“You see, now it's me whose tears are streaming down, Nastenka. Let them stream, let them stream - they won't bother anybody. They will dry, Nastenka ...”

“But I am calm. Enough! It's nothing. Just tears, they'll dry! Do you think that I'lI do away with myself, that I'll drown myself? …”

“(…) because he has everything, because he is sated, because he himself is the artist of his life and he creates it for himself every hour to suit his latest whim.”

“It's as if the same sun that shines for all of Petersburg's people doesn't even peek into these places, but there is another different, new sun, as if specially ordered for these corners, and it shines on everything with a different, special light.”

"The story of my life!' I cried out, frightened. 'My story!
But who told you that I have a story to tell? I don't have a story ..
'But how have you lived if there's no story?' she interrupted, smiling.

“I'm a dreamer; I have so little real life that I regard such moments as this one, now, to be so rare that I can't help repeating these moments in my dreams.”

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