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I have felt shame during the whole time I spent writing this story: consequently, this is not literature any more…
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“I have felt shame during the whole time I spent writing this story: consequently, this is not literature any more but corrective punishment. To tell, for example, long stories about how I deserted my life for moral depravity in a . . .

“I have felt shame during the whole time I spent writing this story: consequently, this is not literature any more but corrective punishment. To tell, for example, long stories about how I deserted my life for moral depravity in a corner, from a lack of circumstances, out of estrangement from what is alive, and an arrogant malice in the underground – this is really and truly not interesting.”

– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

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