“Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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