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the way it's written holds so much emotion that i feel every single sentiment towards all of the characters oh i love this

Slowly and steadily making my way through

“Tyranny is a habit; it is endowed with development, and develops finally into an illness. I stand upon this, that the best of men can, from habit, become coarse and stupefied to the point of brutality. Blood and power intoxicate… Man and citizen perish forever in the tyrant, and the return to human dignity, to repentance, to regeneration, becomes almost impossible for him.” -pg. 197

The start of school has really limited my brain power for Dostoevsky