Fyodor Dostoevsky. The insulted and injured (№ 408161)

Such whims are not in some patients, and not in one Nelly. As often as I used to walk back and forth around the room with the unconscious desire that someone would quickly offend me or say a word that could be mistaken for offense, and quickly tear at someone's heart. Women, "tearing" the heart in this way, begin to cry with the most sincere tears, and the most sensitive of them reach even hysterics. The matter is very simple and ordinary and happens most often, when there is another, often unknown sadness in the heart and which I would like, but it is impossible to express to anyone.