He was, for example, greatly enamored of his position as a "persecuted" man and, so to speak, an "exile." There is a sort of classical luster to these two little words that seduced him once and for all, and, later raising him gradually in his own estimation over the course of so many years, brought him finally to some sort of pedestal, rather lofty and gratifying to his vanity. It could all have been a matter of habit, or, better, of a ceaseless and noble disposition, from childhood on, towards a pleasant dream of his beautiful civic stance. Not that I equate him with a stage actor: God forbid, particularly as I happen to respect him. I will say straight off: Stepan Trofimovich constantly played a certain special and, so to speak, civic role among us, and loved this role to the point of passion–so much so that it even seems to me he would have been unable to live without it. 7: The Last Peregrination of Stepan Trofimovich
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