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critique of the following lines:
"Behold these huts which these priests built! Churches they call their sweet-smelling caves. Oh, that falsified light! That musty air! Here the soul is not allowed to soar to its height. For thus their faith commands: "Crawl up the stairs on your knees, ye sinners!"

utter b.s. narcissism, arrogance, and self-glorification.

I love literature

“Experience has proved to me, time after time, the enormous value of arriving at a decision. It is the failure to arrive at a fixed purpose, the inability to stop going round and round in maddening circles, that drives men to nervous breakdowns and living hells."

“Whereas we," said Dr Robert, "have always chosen to adapt our economy
and technology to human beings—not our human beings to somebody else's
economy and technology.”

Good baselines political ideology.

“Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!"

My heart is in pain reading this

A man who lived most of his life in solitude, ruminating and revisiting dead dreams and outgrowing old ideals from the past. I smell a 5/5. Dostoevsky never disappoints.

"Life begins on the other side of despair" - Satre

Reading the first few chapters and already feeling deeply moved (in a not-so good way) by the MC.

Going back into this book... again

Great insights so far, couple of nuisances in advice that needs further questioning but so far so good.

"...if you can play with the horizon of the future, you are indeed doing well."

March 6th: Amid a Crowd of Paltry Things
". . . in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses." (2 Corinthians 6:4)

I can already tell this is going to be on my top 5 best nonfiction books this year.

Thoroughly nodding my head with each line lol