“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“2 November. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. Just when everything seems over with, new forces come marching up, and precisely that means that you are alive. And if they don't, then everything is over with here, once and for all.”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
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