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The Idiot
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Chapter 3.3, Myshkin said this himself in the iconique dark park scene with rogozhin: ‘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 …”’ i was right in saying that he was talking about aglaya there; now, he’s aware he’s in love.
“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
“Stavrogin, why am I condemned to believe in you for all eternity? Could I really have spoken as I did with anyone else? I am a chaste man, but I was not afraid of my nakedness, because I was speaking with Stavrogin. I was not afraid to caricature a great idea with my touch, because Stavrogin was listening to me. Do you think I won’t kiss your footprints when you’ve left?”
― Demons
― Demons
“The law of self-destruction and the law of self-preservation are equally powerful in humankind! The devil rules over mankind equally until a time that is not revealed to us.”
― 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
“I knew for a fact that I had consumption and was incurable. I didn’t deceive myself and I understood the position clearly. But the clearer it became to me, the more feverishly I longed to live; I clung to life and wanted to live, come what may.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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