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“crime and punishment. dostoevsky. these words grazed over a corner of my mind, startling me. just supposing dostoevsky ranged ‘crime’ and ‘punishment’ side by side not as synonyms but as antonyms. crime and punishment—absolutely incompatible ideas, irreconcilable as oil and water.”

fyodor mentioned

“this was how i managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world. i learned to behave rather aggressively, without the endless anxious worrying i knew before, responding as it were to the needs of the moment.”

write that down write that down!! take notes

“what superficiality—and what stupidity—there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty. the masters through their subjective perceptions created beauty out of trivialities.”

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