…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hopelessness of one’s position.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
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