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1  That, too, is from underground.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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2  I can retreat into my underground hole.
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3  Already even then I had my underground world in my soul.
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4  No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous.
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5  I wanted "peace," to be left alone in my underground world.
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6  Even in my underground dreams I did not imagine love except as a struggle.
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7  But do you know what: I am convinced that we underground folk ought to be kept on a curb.
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8  One longed for movement in spite of everything, and I plunged all at once into dark, underground, loathsome vice of the pettiest kind.
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9  Though we may sit forty years underground without speaking, when we do come out into the light of day and break out we talk and talk and talk.
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10  There in its nasty, stinking, underground home our insulted, crushed and ridiculed mouse promptly becomes absorbed in cold, malignant and, above all, everlasting spite.
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