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“I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I would with myself”

You know when things are too good to be true and you have a presentiment that something wrong will happen at any moment. Something so pure and good can’t remain untainted by the envy and greed surrounding it.

No one, no one here is worth your little finger, or your intelligence, or your heart! You’re more honest than all of them, nobler than all of them, better than all of them, kinder than all of them, more intelligent than all of them! There are people here who aren’t worthy of bending down to pick up the handkerchief you’ve just dropped. Why do you humiliate yourself and place yourself lower than everyone else?

I had the measure of you and hated you a long time ago when I first heard of you, I hated you with every fibre of my body…It was you who brought me to this! It was you who have caused me to have this fit! You have caused a dying man to blush in shame, you, you, you are the cause of my base cowardice! Had I been able to live, I’d have killed you!

Nastasya Fillipovna is a Queen 👑 Enough said.

I really can’t handle animal violence, this is the second book where Dostoevsky scars me with that 😭