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Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Sometimes A Man Is Intensely, Even Passionately,

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.
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