

“sick with a wild terror of dying, and yet indifferent to life itself.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray

“At the sight of the words I love you the desire to stay alive had welled up in him”
― 1984
― 1984

“It's because I chatter that I do nothing. Or perhaps it is that I chatter because I do nothing.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment

“That’s why I drink, to find sympathy and feeling in drink . . . I drink because I want to suffer profoundly!”
― Notes from Underground & The Double
― Notes from Underground & The Double

“Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.”
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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