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"You should go to a doctor."

"I know I am not well, without your telling me, though I don't

know what's wrong; I believe I am five times as strong as you

are. I didn't ask you whether you believe that ghosts are seen,

but whether you believe that they exist."

"No, I won't believe it!" Raskolnikov cried, with positive anger.

"What do people generally say?" muttered Svidrigailov, as though

speaking to himself, looking aside and bowing his head. "They

say, 'You are ill, so what appears to you is only unreal

fantasy.' But that's not strictly logical. I agree that ghosts

only appear to the sick, but that only proves that they are

unable to appear except to the sick, not that they don't exist."

"Nothing of the sort," Raskolnikov insisted irritably.