Fyodor Dostoevsky,
The Brothers Karamazov — Part III, Book IX, Chapter 2
(1880)
“ When Pyotr Ilyitch, though still unwilling to believe in it, threatened to tell someone so as to prevent the suicide, Mitya had answered grinning: "You'll be too late." So they must make haste to Mokroe to find the criminal, before he really did shoot himself."That's clear, that's clear!" repeated the prosecutor in great excitement. "That's just the way with mad fellows like that: 'I shall kill myself to-morrow, so I'll make merry till I die!'"The story of how he had bought the wine and provisions excited the prosecutor more than ever. ”
