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do you understand," I shout at him, "do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the foreground and with such enthusiasm too, then it's merely because cutting off heads is the easiest thing of all, while to have an idea is the hardest of all!

This books is actually really really good, just sadly a bit busy and drowning in other art

forgot Demon at work
needed something for my trip

The beauty of the original pages which are lost in translation are often most visible when the same stream of sentences or words are repeated just a little too closely to each other.

Tho, perhaps im wrong

‘I have rarely met a soul that burned more brightly and honestly. I shall never, ever forsake these radiant hopes, he would tell me with shining eyes. About his radiant hopes he would always speak quietly, sweetly, in almost a whisper, as if in secret.

800 pages excluding the introduction — absolutely horrific. Thought this would be a short read lol

All is wel however, Dostoyevsky has yet to let me down

‘ I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your frame. ‘

‘but there was ever in Mr Rochester (so at least I thought) such a wealth of the power of communicating happiness, that to taste but of the crumbs he scattered to stray and stranger birds like me was to feast genially’

‘ The eagerness of a listener quickens the the tongue of the narrator ‘

‘And you felt self-satisfied with the result of your ardent labours?’

‘‘Far from it. I was tormented by the contrast between my idea and my handiwork: in each case I had imagined something which I was quite powerless to realise’’

“Kiyoaki now realized that a fanatical insistence on total independence was a disease, not of the flesh but of the mind“

russians can write, we about to eat good

not many stories can bring me to smile, stop reading and continue smiling. how i love the banter between characters and the beauty of a story spanning across multiple books and many pages

A very peculiar way if writing, im enjoying it allot. Maud seems very lovely and relatable and im also a big fan of Monica.

first story was oke, the next stories where awful. Story’s only created by a stained mind. Impressive how the men got progressively unbearable