“Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, book Notes from Underground

Part 1, Chapter 5 (page 19)
Notes from Underground (1864)

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