Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes

My Wretched Passions Were Acute, Smarting, From My Continual, Sickly Irritability I Had Hysterical Impulses, With Tears And Convulsions. I Had No Resource Except Reading, That Is, There Was Nothing In My Surroundings Which I Could Respect And Which Attracted Me. I Was Overwhelmed With Depression, Too; I Had An Hysterical Craving For Incongruity And For Contrast, And So I Took To Vice.

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