A brilliant passage from Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Idiot"
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"Indeed, nothing is more vexing than to be, for instance, wealthy,
of good family, passable in looks, fairly well educated and
intelligent, and even kindly, and yet to possess no talent, no
outstanding feature or even quirk, not a single idea of one's own, and
to be positively "just like anybody else". There is wealth, but far
less than the Rothschilds possess; the family is an honorable one, but
has never won the least distinction; one's looks are pleasant enough,
but express nothing in particular; one's education is quite sound, but
one has no idea of what to direct it towards; one has intellige
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