“Yes, there is something uncanny, demonic and fascinating in her.”
—Leo Tolstoy, 'Anna Karenina'
Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack… The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist… And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something… What chaos! What a farce!
Fathers and Sons, Ivan S. Turgenev
“With such a hell in your heart and your head, how can you live? How can you love?”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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