“But for a long time, altogether unnoticed by his comrades, there had ripened in his soul a dark contempt for mankind; contempt mingled with despair and painful, almost deadly fatigue.” DespairContemptFatigue Book:Seven Who Were Hanged Source: Seven Who Were Hanged
“Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.” LifeDeathDespairCynicism Author:Leonid Andreyev