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"Is it possible there's no buffet?..."
"Gentlemen, it's simply a swindle...."

Ahaahahahahah Dostoevsky for sure loves writing ridiculous scenes for their own sake

“But he has no belief in laurels even.... We have a conventional attack of Byronic spleen, a grimace from Heine, something of Petchorin—and the machine goes on rolling, whistling, at full speed. "But you may praise me, you may praise me, that I like extremely; it's only in a manner of speaking that I lay down the pen; I shall bore you three hundred times more, you'll grow weary of reading me...."

Lol

Something going on here

This book might be my least favourite of Dostoevsky so far

“You are just the man that's needed. It's just such a man as you that I need. I know no one but you. You are the leader, you are the sun and I am your worm."
He suddenly kissed his hand. A shiver ran down Stavrogin's spine, and he pulled away his hand in dismay.”

This man is just gay

This is what I think: the whole group is going to turn on Verhovensky and kill him

Pyotr Stepanovitch is such a little squeaky smart bitch and he makes every page with him so much better

I hate the info dumping yaall
Dostoevsky stop with these backstories pls

“Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch laughed aloud, and taking out his purse, in which he had as much as fifty roubles, in small notes, threw him one note out of the bundle, then a second,a third, a fourth. Fedka flew to catch them in the air.<..> Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch finished by flinging the whole bundle at him, and, still laughing, went on down the street, this time alone. darkness.”

I love this man

I love Stavrogin, reminds me of Ivan

Proud that I know the references from other Russian and not only books in this one bc I read them

Fascinating how characters talk about everything and nothing at all at once.

Alcoholic man and senile woman
Wonderful

"Where did you take your baby?"
"I took it to the pond"

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“Now all is pain and terror. Now man loves life, because he loves pain and terror, and so they have done according. Life is given now for pain and terror, and that's the deception.”

"Yes, you don't spend your nights very cheerfully over your tea."

Decided to try again

“I’m here.”

Text him this in the middle of the night and then turn your phone off. Wait as many days as you want and then text him again saying, Sorry, wrong person.”

This one right here is a really good one

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This Margarita just doesn’t have any personality evolving really. Only that - she loves a man and his work. And all her character is about that man. Yes she is like that “fierceful and stubborn strong woman”. Yet her only happiness is a man and his legacy.

Lol

Although this book is undoubtedly funny, there is no depth in characters really and it becomes dragging and boring.

‘How’s that? But ... where are you going to live?’
‘In your apartment’

Lmao