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There is indeed, nothing more vexing than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, decent-looking, not badly educated, fairly intelligent, even good-natured, and at the same time, to have no talents, no peculiarities, not even a single quirk, not one idea of ones own, to be decidedly like everyone else. You have wealth, but its not that of a Rothschild; your family is honorable, but has never distinguished itself in any way your appearance is seemly, but expresses very little; you have a decent education, but have no idea what use to make of it you have brains, but no ideas of your own, you have a heart, but no magnanimity, and so on and so forth, in every respect. There is an extraordinary multitude of such people in the world, far more, indeed, than it appears. The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevski
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 04:44:36 +0000

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