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Quotation from Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“You believe in a palace of crystal that can never be destroyed—a palace at which one will not be able to put out one’s tongue or make a long nose on the sly.”
Notes from Underground, Part I, Chapter X, trans. Constance Garnett (1918)
The narrator explains why he fears the perfected society imagined by the rationalists of his day.
Citation: "You believe in a palace of crystal that can never be destroyed—a palace at which one will not be able to put out one’s tongue or make a long nose on the sly." — Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, Part I, Chapter X, trans. Constance Garnett (1918). (id notes-from-underground-q5)
Portrait: Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Vasily Perov, Vasily Perov, Public domain.
