Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

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Another circumstance, too, worried me in those days: that there was no one like me and I was unlike anyone else. "I am a — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last reso — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
There are certain things in a man's past which he does not divulge to everybody but, perhaps, only to his friends. Again — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
There in its nasty, stinking, underground home our insulted, crushed and ridiculed mouse promptly becomes absorbed in co — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
But man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not th — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
As for what concerns me in particular I have only in my life carried to an extreme what you have not dared to carry half — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more content — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing mor — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead