His character is so undeveloped that one can hardly believe that he
has been to the University.

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And I dreamt that, as it were, what I considered reality was a dream,
and the dream was reality.

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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

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It usually takes as much time to feel happy as to wind up one's watch.

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A dirty tavern near the station. And in every tavern like that you
will find salted white sturgeon with horse radish. What a lot of
sturgeon must be salted in Russia!

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Z. goes on Sundays to the Sukharevka (a market-place in Moscow) to
look for books; he finds a book, written by his father, with the
inscription: "To darling Nadya from the author."

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