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The Possessed

CHAPTER I
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and can you think me such a fool, Stavrogin," he yelled frantically all at once, "that I can't distinguish whether my words at this moment are the rotten old commonplaces that have been ground out in all the Slavophil mills in Moscow, or a perfectly new saying, the last word, the sole word of renewal and resurrection, and...

and what do I care for your laughter at this minute! What do I care that you utterly, utterly fail to understand me, not a word, not a sound! Oh, how I despise your haughty laughter and your look at this minute!" He jumped up from his seat; there was positively foam on his lips.
"On the contrary Shatov, on the contrary," Stavrogin began with extraordinary earnestness and self-control, still keeping his seat, "on the contrary, your fervent words have revived many extremely powerful recollections in me.

In your words I recognise my own mood two years ago, and now I will not tell you, as I did just now, that you have exaggerated my ideas.

I believe, indeed, that they were even more exceptional, even more independent, and I assure you for the third time that I should be very glad to confirm all that you've said just now, every syllable of it, but..." "But you want a hare ?" "Wh-a-t ?" "Your own nasty expression," Shatov laughed spitefully, sitting down again.


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