Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Russia
11 Nov 1821 // 9 Feb 1881
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Anger Experience

How often I have walked up and down the room with the unconscious desire for someone to insult me or to utter some word that I could interpret as an insult in order to vent my anger upon someone. Women, venting their anger in that way, begin to cry shedding the most genuine tears, and the more emotional of them even go into hysterics. It's a very simple and everyday experience, and happens most often when there is some other, often a secret, gried in the heart, to which one longs to give utterance but cannot.

Fiodor Dostoievski, in 'The Insulted and Injured'
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