As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what …

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.
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