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Book: The Idiot
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Idiot
imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all-but the certain knowledge that in an hour,-then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now-this very instant-your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man-and that this is certain, certain! That's the point-the certainty of it. Just that instant when you place your head on the block and hear the iron grate over your head-then-that quarter of a second is the most awful of all.
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