“Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.”
― Alexander Pushkin, The Queen of Spades
The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin is a Russian short story about avarice and human choice. When a prudent man named Hermann hears of a countess who possessed a secret trick for gambling at cards, he thinks he has discovered the answer to his financial problems.