I answered that there are many people who speak in the same way; that there are, probably, some that are telling the truth; however, disillusionment, like every fashion, having begun at the highest social strata, had descended to the lowest, who were now wearing it out.
Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time (1841)

(Source: bloodletters)

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