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“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness—a real thorough-going illness.
-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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Arguably one of the funniest ways to begin a novel
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~ Edward Hughes, Queen Mary (1867-1953) when Victoria Mary, Duchess of York (1895) (details)
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