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It seems to me that the whole of human life can be summed up in the one statement that man only exists for the purpose of proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not an organ.
It seems to me that the whole of human life can be summed up in the one statement that man only exists for the purpose of proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not an organ.
Approximate author period: c. 1851 AD · industrial
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- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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- Approximate author period: c. 1851 AD · industrial
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