“To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“No one of them will understand, if you tell them, but I have understood. I need you, that is why I have come to you.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
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