That's why I loved you, for your magnanimous heart! And you do not need my forgiveness, nor I yours; it's all the same whether you forgive or not, all my life you will remain a wound in my soul, and I in yours—that's how it should be...
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov — Katerina Ivanovna, Epilogue
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