

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment

“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 had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing but I had done another. And so?”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger

“I to właśnie wówczas, w ciemności, uświadomiłem sobie po raz pierwszy w życiu, że jedynie samotność jest w życiu człowieka stanem graniczącym z absolutnym spokojem wewnętrznym, z odzyskaniem indywidualności. Tylko w pochłaniającej wszystko pustce samotności, w ciemnościach zacierających kontury świata zewnętrznego można odczuć, że się jest sobą aż do granic zwątpienia, które uprzytamnia nagle własną nicość w rosnącym przeraźliwie ogromie wszechświata.”
― Inny świat
― Inny świat

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
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