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““The next dish given him was spinach with hard-boiled eggs, while Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, as an invalid, had jelly and milk. When with a preoccupied face she touched the jelly with a spoon and then began languidly eating it, sipping milk, and he heard her swallowing, he was possessed by such an overwhelming aversion that it made his head tingle. He recognised that such a feeling would be an insult even to a dog, but he was angry, not with himself but with Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, for arousing such a feeling, and he understood why lovers sometimes murder their mistresses. He would not murder her, of course, but if he had been on a jury now, he would have acquitted the murderer.””
Seagull • Anton Chekhov“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
Crime And Punishment • Fyodor Dostoevski“Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.”
Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens“Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.”
Adam's Diary • Mark Twain“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.”
A Tale of Two Cities • Charles Dickens