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1  Another time, twice, in fact, I tried hard to be in love.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: V
2  Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: IX
3  Consciousness, for instance, is infinitely superior to twice two makes four.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: IX
4  Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: IX
5  As though such a stone wall really were a consolation, and really did contain some word of conciliation, simply because it is as true as twice two makes four.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: III
6  I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: IX
7  I polished my boots a second time with my own hands; nothing in the world would have induced Apollon to clean them twice a day, as he considered that it was more than his duties required of him.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: III
8  When they prove to you that in reality one drop of your own fat must be dearer to you than a hundred thousand of your fellow-creatures, and that this conclusion is the final solution of all so-called virtues and duties and all such prejudices and fancies, then you have just to accept it, there is no help for it, for twice two is a law of mathematics.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: III