Status Updates From The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

i love dostoyevsky... unreliable narration was so good and the narrator's inability to truly take responsibility or understand anything he did/how he treated her (i should've read all 4 of these stories separately but we move)

skipped Bobok because I’ve already read that

J’avais une super idée de revue mais j’ai oublié… donc juste à dire que c’est super à lire au travail. Très court etc…. Donne cependant envie de se flinguer! 💋

But the instinct of self-preservation grew rapidly weaker; there arose men, haughty and sensual, who demanded all or nothing. In order to obtain everything they resorted to crime, and if they did not succeed - to suicide.

Everyone always laughed at me. But not one of them knew or guessed that if there were one man on earth who knew better than anybody else that I was absurd, it was myself, and what I resented most of all was
that they did not know that.

"i do not wish and cannot believe that evil is mankind's normal state."
the dichotomy of good versus evil and love versus suffering.. humanity's relentless pursuit of knowledge.. hell yeah this was so good