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“What matters is life, life alone, the continuous and infinite process of discovering it, not the discovery itself!”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“You know, a woman can torture a man with her cruelty and mockery without feeling the slightest twinge of conscience, because every time she looks at you she thinks to herself: “Now I’m going to torment him to death, but I will make it up to him later with my love …”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Yes, I couldn’t immediately tear myself away from everything to which I had become attached since childhood — it would have been too bloody — and on which I had lavished all the ecstasies of my hopes and all the tears of my hatred… It’s hard to change gods.”
― Demons
― Demons
“Scattering your seed, in offering charity, in performing your good deed in whatever fashion it may be, you give away part of your personality and take in part of another’s; there is a mutual communion, and with a little more attention you will be rewarded by knowledge, the most unexpected discoveries.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“A new feeling, melancholy and desolate, oppressed his heart; all at once he had become aware that at that moment, and for some time past, he had not been saying what he ought to have been saying, not doing what he should have been doing, and that these cards he held in his hands and had been so pleased about, could avail nothing, nothing at all now.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
sonya’s 2025 Year in Books
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