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Updated on: 13 Nov 2022, 08:46
“The repugnance to what must ensue almost immediately, and the uncertainty, were dreadful, he said; but worst of all was the idea, ‘What should I do if I were not to die now? What if I were to return to life again? What an eternity of days, and all mine! How I should grudge and count up every minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!’ He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that he could not bear it, and wished they would shoot him quickly and have done with it.”
This came to mind recently
The anticipation about being pardoned or not was so painful that Dostoevsky wished they would shoot him immediately just to be done with it
Originally posted by
Gaudapada on 13 Nov 2022, 08:44.
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