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That’s exactly how this book made me feel. I loved it, but it also left me feeling empty because, in the end, it felt like a dream. And I think the amazing part is that the author managed to make us feel exactly what the main character was feeling.

I read a lot of books, and with many of them, I end up feeling overwhelmed, but this one was different. I don’t really know how to describe it in words. I feel like this book was so well written, and it was meant to make you feel this way.

but only I would love you so, that even if you still loved him and continued to love this person whom I don't know, you still would not find my love to be a burden to you in any way. You would only feel, you would only sense at every moment that next to you beats a grateful, grateful heart, an ardent heart, which for your sake... Oh, Nastenka, Nastenka! What have you done to me!..❤️‍🩹

'In the beginning it was simple, Nastenka, but now, now... I'm in exactly the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. Worse than you, Nastenka, because he didn't love someone then, but you do.❤️‍🩹💔

'Nastenka, I cried out finally, unable to control my agitation. 'Nastenka! You're tearing me apart! You're breaking my heart, you're killing me, Nastenka! I cannot be silent! I must finally speak, and tell you what has been welling up here, in my heart..

And so it is that when we are unhappy we more strongly feel the unhappiness of others; feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated...

But how fine joy and happiness make a person! How the heart seethes with love! It seems that you want to pour out all your heart into another's heart.

you are outgrowing your former ideals: they
are being smashed to dust, to bits and pieces; and if there is no other life, then you must build it from these bits and pieces.

that I see that God himself has sent you, my good angel, to me, in order to tell me this and prove it to me. As I sit beside you and talk to you now, I'm terrified even to think about the future, because the future is once again loneliness, once again this stagnant, useless life; and what will there be for me to dream about when I have already been so happy in real life beside you!