Fyodor Dostoevskyor - “I could get used to anything-that...”

“I could get used to anything-that is, not really get used, but somehow voluntarily consent to endure it”

Fyodor Dostoevskyor Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

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