Thursday, May 13, 2004
Dostoyevsky on Turning Forty
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (tr. J. Coulson):
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I am forty now, and forty years is a lifetime; it is extreme old age. To go on living after forty is unseemly, disgusting, immoral! Who goes on living after forty? Give me a sincere and honest answer! I'll tell you: fools and rogues.
