“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life.”
― Steppenwolf
― Steppenwolf
“Being in love doesn't mean loving.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“A good friend once told me that problems are like cockroaches. If you bring them out into the light, they get scared and leave.”
― Marina
― Marina
“You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.”
― Netochka Nezvanova
― Netochka Nezvanova
“I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!”
― The Gambler
― The Gambler
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