Part 1, Chapter 9 (page 32)
General, Notes from Underground (1864)
“To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred.”
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Notes from Underground
Part 1, Chapter 9 (page 32)
Notes from Underground (1864)
Context: To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.
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