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The fashionable words for this state, in the late twentieth century, are alienation and anomie

The familiar dialectic repeats itself: dreams of love and glory, followed by fits of self-hatred, shame, and spite

when life has the temerity to imitate literature

Dostoevsky set about the masterpiece one could call liminal

a pre-Marxian, non-"scientific" form of socialism commonly designated as "utopian".