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if you are going to lift lines for a review you post to GR, you should not be mutuals with the person you lifted lines from.

"Very slight matters were enough to gall him in his sensitive mood, and the sight of Dorothea driving past him while he felt himself plodding along as a poor devil seeking a position in a world which in his present temper offered him little that he coveted, made his conduct seem a mere matter of necessity, and took away the sustainment of resolve."

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One minute after his shrieks commenced, an enormous paw, most now like a hand whose fingers were bright claws, raked in over the side of the eyrie and opened him to let out all that he was.
The blood fell like a rain from the mast-top, straining black the sails, puddling on the deck.

"Aleksei Fyodorovich, you're unbelievably good, but sometimes you're a bit of a pedant."

LISE, I love you, I love you!

every other paragraph stressing me out (having the time of my life)

It’s an extraordinary feeling when parts of your body are touched for the first time. I’m thinking of the sensations from sex and surgery.
—jenny holzer (Introduction)

this edition came out prior to Crash so I need to find the updated edition at some point.

everyone has incorrect opinions about Olympia!

Marriage, which was to bring guidance into worthy and imperative occupation, had not yet freed her from the gentlewoman's oppressive liberty: it had not even filled her leisure with the ruminant joy of unchecked tenderness. Her blooming full-pulsed youth stood there in a moral imprisonment which made itself one with the chill, colourless, narrowed landscape [ . . . ] what if I underlined everything? WHAT THEN?

"I will certainly cry today. Au revoir. I simply dread the thought of meeting you. Lise"

who among us!?

"Alyosha read the letter with surprise, he read it twice, thought to himself a little, and then suddenly began to laugh softly and contentedly. He shuddered; his laughter struck him as sinful. But a second later he was laughing again just as softly and joyfully. He slowly returned the letter to its envelope, crossed himself, and lay down. The turmoil in his soul had passed."

MY ALYOSHA!!

well, this seems stressful already (complimentary)

"But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. Talk about the weather and other well-bred topics is apt to seem a hollow device, and behavior can hardly become easy unless it frankly recognizes a mutual fascination - which of course need not mean anything deep or serious."

"But selfish people always think their own discomfort of more importance than anything else in the world"

ahh Mary!

definitely should have tuned off the move books to a different shelf setting so my feed isn’t just all the books I didn’t finish 🤪🙃

"(pardon these details for once - you would have learned to love them if you had known Caleb Garth)"