We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — 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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We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it. Soon we shall invent a method of being born from an idea.

— 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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