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He wanted to go back to being in the dark with others and fell connected.

“‘I want you always to remember that you kissed my hand, but I refused to kiss yours.’ There was a sudden glint in her eyes. She stared into Katerina Ivanovna’s eyes with a terrible intensity.”

So grushenka is crazy…

“‘Do you really want to marry her?’ ‘If she’ll let me, I’ll marry her at once, and if she doesn’t, I’ll stay with her anyway; I’ll be her odd-job man. Alyosha, do you… do you…’, […]this is delirium, sheer delirium, because this is a tragedy!”

At meditation we learn about how delusion is one of the three bad states, anger, greed, delusion. And I sure suffer it

‘“The ladder’s the same for all of us. I’m on the bottom rung and you’re a long way up, somewhere near the thirteenth. As I see it, there’s absolutely no difference between us. Once one steps on to the first rung, one is bound to go right to the top.’”

I guess that means we have to descend and leave the ladder if we want to not become absolutely debauched

“Alyosha interrupted suddenly. ‘But that’s not because of what you’ve been saying or what you’ve done. It’s because I’m just the same as you.’”

Oh wow so we’re all the same?

“Through sheer boredom turned into the most insufferable despot.”

So true bestie; me too, and everyone. Boredom is hella destructive poison

“people, even evil-doers, are much simpler and more naïve than we generally suppose. And the same is true of you and me.”

At first I’m like hmm you’re going to show us that this is not true right, but then after a moment I realised yeah generally people have pretty clear knowledge gaps/blinders easily visible to outsiders but naively not to ourselves

Arghhhhh he’s talking directly to me AGAIN

“This situation seems to have been unique in the life of Fyodor Pavlovich, a life-long sensualist, ready at the drop of a hat to pursue any petticoat that gave him the least encouragement.”

“nothing in the world could have been more alluring to him than the prospect of worming his way into a good family and laying his hands on a dowry.”

Not nothing but almost same, girl

Since he is unable to resolve the problem he will venture to leave it unresolved lol

Expectation management at its finest haha

Inability to do things in half measure

The middle way, moderation etc,

Dostoevsky and his characters will lack, but not me

Maybe?

The doctor had prescribed madam devilfeur her the air of Naples

Same for Vidhee

Is this going to be too much ado about nothing?

Edmond got caught and jailed because he was too naive to say that donglar is evil

Scarcity enables society to exist?

Quarrelling with one’s neighbour akin to hell?

The preface states the average founding date was 1897 and that consultants should read this book. Bsfr bro average?!?!??

Maintain your integrity. Have the good luck and freedom to not have to bend the knee by force to lose your integrity!

You need to repeat another’s experiment to see if you get the same result that they got and only then change the variable to see if you get a similar/different result

Dad couldn’t come to America because of an opportunity gap. He thinks he would be successful. I came, i tried

THE LEGEND OF AMAL?

Rereading, last time was middle-high school.

STOP the father having the dream to travel and letting his son instead is dad and me

As someone who is trying to buy shiny new shoes because I can, the book is getting interesting where Dorian is trying to forget the reality by accumulating shiny objects

Caltech Professor of physics also has an alias -ofey- and they’re having an ofey exhibition?!?!?

Nice

What a dipshit not even letting Basel down easily. Just mocking him meh

Something strange that novels, fiction, etc feel compelled to kill/suicide a character

Most classical fiction I’m reading is about this

The poor only have self denial; beautiful sins and beautiful things are for the rich…

Listening on hoopla

The description of beauty, youth by Henry to gray in the garden is really sending me

Organize step 3 is all about putting things on maps

Actionable items go on calendar or next action list or project list

Non actionable items go in reference, or someday/maybe, or trash

How insane is it that as I’m reading about dragonflies aka darning needles and look up from the page that I see them?!?!

Life is good

Feynman was what with a married woman in a white uniform?!?! LOL