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The Dark Forest

CHAPTER IV
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The Russian character seems, superficially, with its lack of restraint, its idealism, its impracticality, its mysticism, its material simplicities, to be so readily grasped that the surprise that finally remains is the more dumbfounding.

Perhaps after all it is the very closeness of our resemblance the one to the other that confuses us.

It is, perhaps, that in the Russians' soul the East can never be reconciled to the West.

It is perhaps that the Russian never reveals his secret ideal even to himself; far distant is it then from his friend.

It may be that towards other men the Russian is indifferent and towards women his relation is so completely sexual that his true character is hidden from her.


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