The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Annotated): Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Poor Folk, Notes from Underground, Uncle's Dream, The House of the Dead etc.

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

But her chest is weak and she has a tendency to consumption and I feel it! Do you suppose I don’t feel it? And the more I drink the more I feel it. That’s why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!” And as though in despair he laid his head down on the table.