

“Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her—the opportunity, the courage.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary

“I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.”
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“To think too much is a disease.”
― Notes from Underground & The Double
― Notes from Underground & The Double

“I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”
― The Fall
― The Fall

“It may even be that some of us know what it is like to be actually hated—hated for things we have no control over and cannot change.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
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