"...a condemned man who, at the hour of……" — Fyodor Dostoevsky
"...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live!"
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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585 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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