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Awful Freedom

If he believes, he doesn’t believe that he believes, and if he doesn’t believe, he doesn’t believe that he doesn’t believe.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons (1872)

If I cared, then I didn’t care that I cared, and if I didn’t care, I didn’t care that I didn’t care. — Elif Batuman, The Possessed (2010)

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