

“He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same.”
― The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
― The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

“I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.”
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“I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.”
― 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

“The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov

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