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title = "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877) by Fyodor Dostoevsky"
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date = 2026-05-02
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draft = true
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<div class="notes">
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{% h(at="01") %}
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I am a ridiculous man. Nowadays they call me mad.
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{% end %}
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{% h(at="02") %}
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All of a sudden, I realised that it *would not matter* to me whether the world existed or whether there was nothing at all anywhere. I began to intuit and sense with all my being, that *there was nothing around me*.
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{% end %}
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{% h(at="03") %}
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Suddenly, I noticed in one of these spaces a tiny star and began watching it intently. That was because that tiny star had given me an idea: I decided to kill myself that night.
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{% end %}
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{% h(at="07") %}
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One might go so far as to say that the world was created for me alone, as it were: I will shoot myself and the world will cease to exist, at least for me.
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{% end %}
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</div>
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