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I play the fool, Pyotr Alexandrovitch, to make myself agreeable. Though I really don’t know myself, sometimes, what I do it for.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)
The doctor was also a concert violinist, a mathematician, a chess master, and a Doctor of International Jurisprudence with license to practice in the lavatories of the Hague.
William Burroughs • Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels + A Christmas Carol (Centaur Classics)
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Gustave Flaubert : Oeuvres complètes et Annexes - 69 titres (Nouvelle édition enrichie) (French Edition)
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He regarded his whole life as a continual round of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him.
Leo Tolstoy • War and Peace
“Mr. Constant,” he said, “right now you’re as easy for the Bureau of Internal Revenue to watch as a man on a street corner selling apples and pears. But just imagine how hard you would be to watch if you had a whole office building jammed to the rafters with industrial bureaucrats—men who lose things and use the wrong forms and create new forms and
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Whatever (Serpent's Tail Classics)
Michel Houellebecq, To Litt (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Paul Hammond (Translator)
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“Loo dee doo, Mr. Rumfoord,” he