…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur…
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.
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Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.
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