To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether i…

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. ✨ Notes from Underground. Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part 1, Chapter 9 (page 32), 1864.
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To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. ✨ Notes from Underground. Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part 1, Chapter 9 (page 32), 1864.

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