grew thin, ugly, spiteful, stamped her foot and shouted at him: "Leave
me, you low fellow." She hated him. She worked, and people paid the
money to him, for, being a Zemstvo worker, she took no money, and it
enraged her that their friends did not understand him and thought him
ideal.

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A young man made a million marks, lay down on them, and shot himself.

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"That woman." ... "I married when I was twenty; I have not drunk a
glass of vodka all my life, haven't smoked a single cigarette." After
he had run off with another woman, people got to like him more and
to believe him more, and, when he walked in the street, he began to
notice that they had all become kinder and nicer to him--because he
had fallen.

* * * * *

A man and woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with
themselves.

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The power and salvation of a people lie in its intellegentsia, in the
intellectuals who think honestly, feel, and can work.

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