Demons

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

By degrees she broke him in so completely that at last he did not himself dare to allude to what had happened the day before, and only glanced into her eyes at times. But she never forgot anything, while he sometimes forgot too quickly, and encouraged by her composure he would not infrequently, if friends came in, laugh and make jokes over the champagne the very same day. With what malignancy she must have looked at him at such moments, while he noticed nothing!

exposed in print, and they began getting up

The very fact that Christianity has failed to understand woman is enough,

God is the pain of the fear of death.

He who will conquer pain and terror will become himself a god.

because Russia is now pre-eminently the place in all the world where anything you like may happen without any opposition.

Did he want to compare himself and his fate with those wretched flowers battered by the autumn and the frost?

my thoughts altogether

I've never doubted that I should meet you somewhere on some high adventure....

Just how amazing that would be...

It's natural in Europe to wish to destroy everything because there's a proletariat there, but we are only amateurs here