A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — 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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A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

— 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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