"we have all got out of the habit of living, we are all in a greater or less degree crippled. we are so unused to living that we often feel something like loathing for `real life' and cannot bear to be reminded of it. we have really gone so far as to think of `real life' as toil, almost as servitude, and we are all agreed, for our part, that it is better in books. "
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Date: 2002-04-01 11:20 pm (UTC)all in a greater or less degree crippled. we are so
unused to living that we often feel something like
loathing for `real life' and cannot bear to be reminded
of it. we have really gone so far as to think of `real
life' as toil, almost as servitude, and we are all
agreed, for our part, that it is better in books. "
-- fyodor dostoevsky