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One of the best books in the library. Gives you the full taste of Dostoyevsky’s remarkable imagination and storytelling skills.
5🌟 Strongly recommended! "
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(page 2 of 472)
". . . he had involuntarily come to regard this “hideous” dream as an exploit to be attempted, although he still did not realise this himself. He was positively going now for a “rehearsal” of his project, and at every step his excitement grew more and more violent." — Jan 15, 2026 12:16PM
". . . he had involuntarily come to regard this “hideous” dream as an exploit to be attempted, although he still did not realise this himself. He was positively going now for a “rehearsal” of his project, and at every step his excitement grew more and more violent." — Jan 15, 2026 12:16PM
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"Lovely maidens sit in close proximity to the roots of the lovely trees singing the most lovely songs while they play with all kinds of lovely objects as for example golden ingots, silvery fishes, crans of herrings, drafts of eels, codlings, creels of fingerlings, purple seagems and playful
insects. And heroes voyage from afar to woo them, . . ." — Jan 02, 2026 07:24PM
"Lovely maidens sit in close proximity to the roots of the lovely trees singing the most lovely songs while they play with all kinds of lovely objects as for example golden ingots, silvery fishes, crans of herrings, drafts of eels, codlings, creels of fingerlings, purple seagems and playful
insects. And heroes voyage from afar to woo them, . . ." — Jan 02, 2026 07:24PM
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"We count the weeks no more. It was winter when I came up, and when the shells exploded the frozen clods of earth were just as dangerous as the fragments. [. . .] We have almost grown accustomed to it; war is the cause of deathlike cancer and tuberculosis, like influenza and dysentery. The deaths are merely more frequent, more varied and terrible.
Our thoughts are clay, they are molded with the changes of the days,—" — Jan 05, 2026 05:04AM
"We count the weeks no more. It was winter when I came up, and when the shells exploded the frozen clods of earth were just as dangerous as the fragments. [. . .] We have almost grown accustomed to it; war is the cause of deathlike cancer and tuberculosis, like influenza and dysentery. The deaths are merely more frequent, more varied and terrible.
Our thoughts are clay, they are molded with the changes of the days,—" — Jan 05, 2026 05:04AM
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“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
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