But the chief point was that all this was, as it were, not accidental in me, but as though it were bound to be so. It was as though it were my most normal condition, and not in the least disease or depravity, so that at last all desire in me to struggle against this depravity passed.
The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, The Brothers Karamazov and other
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
