Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

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• One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

  

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