It was such a romantic wedding, and later—what fools! what babies!

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Love. Either it is a remnant of something degenerating, something which once has been immense, or it is a particle of what will in the future develop into something immense; but in the present it is unsatisfying, it gives much less than one expects.

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A very intellectual man all his life tells lies about hypnotism, spiritualism—and people believe him; yet he is quite a nice man.

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In Act I, X., a respectable man, borrows a hundred roubles from N., and in the course of all four acts he does not pay it back.

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A grandmother has six sons and three daughters, and best of all she loves the failure, who drinks and has been in prison.

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