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"Never, never marry, my friend! That is my advice to you: never marry till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of doing, and till you have ceased loving the woman you have chosen and can see her clearly, or you will make a cruel and irrevocable mistake. Marry when you are old and no longer good for anything, otherwise all that is fine and noble in you will be lost -- all wasted on trifles. Yes, yes, yes! Don't look at me with such surprise. If you expect anything of yourself in the future, you will feel at every step that all is over, all is closed to you expect the drawing room, where you will be on the level of a court lackey and an idiot... Well, what more is there to say?" |
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