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The Possessed

CHAPTER IV
18/71

They all see nothing in it now, Russians and English alike.

All its fame is just the talk of the last generation." "Fashions are changed then ?" "What I think is that one mustn't despise our younger generation either.
They cry out that they're communists, but what I say is that we must appreciate them and mustn't be hard on them.

I read everything now--the papers, communism, the natural sciences--I get everything because, after all, one must know where one's living and with whom one has to do.

One mustn't spend one's whole life on the heights of one's own fancy.

I've come to the conclusion, and adopted it as a principle, that one must be kind to the young people and so keep them from the brink.


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