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“‘I want you always to remember that you kissed my hand, but I refused to kiss yours.’ There was a sudden glint in her eyes. She stared into Katerina Ivanovna’s eyes with a terrible intensity.”

So grushenka is crazy…

“‘Do you really want to marry her?’ ‘If she’ll let me, I’ll marry her at once, and if she doesn’t, I’ll stay with her anyway; I’ll be her odd-job man. Alyosha, do you… do you…’, […]this is delirium, sheer delirium, because this is a tragedy!”

At meditation we learn about how delusion is one of the three bad states, anger, greed, delusion. And I sure suffer it

‘“The ladder’s the same for all of us. I’m on the bottom rung and you’re a long way up, somewhere near the thirteenth. As I see it, there’s absolutely no difference between us. Once one steps on to the first rung, one is bound to go right to the top.’”

I guess that means we have to descend and leave the ladder if we want to not become absolutely debauched

“Alyosha interrupted suddenly. ‘But that’s not because of what you’ve been saying or what you’ve done. It’s because I’m just the same as you.’”

Oh wow so we’re all the same?

“Through sheer boredom turned into the most insufferable despot.”

So true bestie; me too, and everyone. Boredom is hella destructive poison

“people, even evil-doers, are much simpler and more naïve than we generally suppose. And the same is true of you and me.”

At first I’m like hmm you’re going to show us that this is not true right, but then after a moment I realised yeah generally people have pretty clear knowledge gaps/blinders easily visible to outsiders but naively not to ourselves

Arghhhhh he’s talking directly to me AGAIN

“This situation seems to have been unique in the life of Fyodor Pavlovich, a life-long sensualist, ready at the drop of a hat to pursue any petticoat that gave him the least encouragement.”

Since he is unable to resolve the problem he will venture to leave it unresolved lol

Expectation management at its finest haha

Inability to do things in half measure

The middle way, moderation etc,

Dostoevsky and his characters will lack, but not me

Maybe?