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304 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1862
...nothing ventured, nothing gained. (45)
'What will people say? Where will it end? What will tomorrow bring, tomorrow, tomorrow!...' (35)
He knew, he knew very well, that he should have left long ago, and not only so as to leave, but so as to save himself. That all this had suddenly become something else鈥攚ell, had turned out totally unlike his dream on the planks that evening. (34)
Then moral fits began, concerned with his existence manqu茅e. Then shame again flared up in his soul, taking possession of it all at once, burning and exacerbating everything. He shuddered, imagining various pictures to himself. What would they say... (47)
It is known that whole trains of thought sometimes pass instantly through our heads, in the form of certain feelings, without translation into human language, still less literary language... Because many of our feelings, when translated into ordinary language, will seem perfectly implausible. That is why they never come into the world, and yet everybody has them. (22)