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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
Dostoyevsky knew a lot but not everything. He, for instance, thought that if you kill a human you'll turn into Raskolnikov. But we know now that one can kill five - ten, one hundred people - and go to the theatre in the evening.
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.
Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.