There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.
Woe to the man who offends a small child!
I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!
I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.'
'Love life more than the meaning of it?
'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning.
That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life.
Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.
There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.
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