Dostoyevsky wrote this hours after nearly being executed https://t.co/OHPm5LNHnd

Dostoevsky, life is a gift https://t.co/ud3on8XyJl

“How many thousands have I spent on perfume and alcohol, cigarettes and Turkish baths, disappointing trips and third-class movies; how many months in silent bars or parks, expecting, in a chair with a book not reading, or waiting in line, waiting in line? Who will tell me it’s a loss when I know life must be for pleasure? The parks were balanced by

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