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‘And as for being frightened—you are upsetting yourself about nothing, for nothing will come of it.’

‘The table was not laid even. What did it mean?’

may i never regard people with such suspicion like this guy does 😭

‘I grew used to everything, or rather I voluntarily resigned myself to enduring it. But I had a means of escape that reconciled everything—that was to find refuge in “the sublime and the beautiful,” in dreams, of course. I was a terrible dreamer’

‘The long and the short of it is, gentlemen, that it is better to do nothing!’

can’t tell if he is making fun of me or is actually meaning business

‘Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful that you could not find another like him in all creation.’

convinced dostoevsky wrote this book just to cook up some good quotes

‘The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations—and absolutely nothing more. And through the development of this many-sidedness man may come to finding enjoyment in bloodshed.’

‘Remember I spoke just now of vengeance. (I am sure you did not take it in.)’

did he just break the fourth to clock me

‘Possibly, I even regret, myself, that I have given so few slaps in the face during my life.’