translation of Dostoevsky's "Rasskazy Uspenskogo"

[Olga Meerson]

Re:
'wrung out of one by real life'

'drawn from real life' has a slightly different meaning, I think.

Same problem with the latter: life is no longer the drawer of the conclusion, which it is, emphatically (perhaps as the sole purpose of the sentence), in Russian. 
Opposite problem, in the former: life draws conclusions but no longer from itself. 
Perhaps, "after all, this is the lesson life itself teaches us from our experience of it"? Sounds clumsy but at least the points of immediacy in empiricism and existentialism are both there.

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