I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry. — 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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I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

— 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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