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Only dostoevsky could write a book about gambling to get out of his irl gambling debts

feel like im getting high off the fumes of this 60 year old book i got at a library sale. written during the cold war, so curious to see how that may skew the history told, but im more interested in the 16th century up to the Bolshevik revolution anyways

pretty moving only 20 pages in

"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom. I suppose this was why I asked her to marry me: to give myself something to be moored to... But people can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life." pg 5

"There is both Providence and God. The proof is that you are lying there, desperate, denying God, and I am standing before you, rich, happy, healthy, and safe." pg 930.... CHILLS CHILLS CHILLS
one conspirator dead, three to go

so much goin awn.. cant wait to see how this gets wrapped up

easy 5 star incoming and i still got 800 pages to go

flying through... one of the best books i've ever read

haven't been this excited to start a book in a while

the devil and his entourage wreaking absolute havoc in soviet moscow... yeah im hooked

"Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being."

"Such fondness at certain moments makes the heart cold and the soul heavy. Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!"

Take her in my arms? What good would it do? I can do nothing for her; she is as solitary as I.