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A Disgraceful Affair: Stories (White Nights, A Disgraceful Affair, The Dream of the Ridiculous Man)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
― Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari

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“There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.”
― Donald Barthelme

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“鈥擶hat do the children say?
鈥擳here's a thing the children say.
鈥擶hat do the children say?
鈥擳hey say: Will you always love me?
鈥擜濒飞补测蝉.
鈥擶ill you always remember me?
鈥擜濒飞补测蝉.
鈥擶ill you remember me a year from now?
鈥擸es, I will.
鈥擶ill you remember me two years from now?
鈥擸es, I will.
鈥擶ill you remember me five years from now?
鈥擸es, I will.
鈥擪nock knock.
鈥擶ho's there?
鈥擸ou see?

("Great Days," Forty Stories)”
― Donald Barthelme

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