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Quotation from Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased.”
Notes from Underground, Part I, Chapter I, trans. Constance Garnett (1918)
The opening lines, in which the narrator introduces himself and then explains that he refuses to see a doctor out of spite.
Citation: "I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased." — Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, Part I, Chapter I, trans. Constance Garnett (1918). (id notes-from-underground-q1)
Portrait: Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Vasily Perov, Vasily Perov, Public domain.
