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"...knowing how easily habits of luxury are acquired and how difficult they are to give up afterwards, when luxury gradually passes into necessity." (p.151)

“she is an uncut diamond — i've said so several times.” (p. 197)

i love how nastasya was written!!!

"it's hard to imagine to what an extent a man's nature can be corrupted." (p. 83)

a fitting conclusion to the house of the dead

“My god, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?” (p. 59)

😭

“a dream. what's a dream? and what's our life if it isn't a dream?” (p. 217)

“but, since nothing can be explained by reasoning, why reason?” (p. 190)

“«i'll slap his face as soon as i get there. but should i say a few words, to preface the slap, as it were? no, no need. i'll simply go in and slap his face.»” (p. 152)

“... that a man, always and everywhere, prefers to act in the way he feels like acting and not in the way his reason and interest tell him...” (p. 103)

“in general, i couldn't stand saying ‹sorry, papa, i'll never do it again.›

“and it wasn't at all because i was incapable of saying it. on the contrary, perhaps it was just because i was only too prone to say it.” (p. 95)

“our skill becomes lopsided as we avoid our weaknesses.” (p. 66)

"He grew more and more enamoured of his own beauty, more and more interested in the corruption of his own soul." (p. 124)

"he had always the look of one who had kept himself unspotted from the world. [...] his mere presence seemed to recall to them the memory of the innocence that they had tarnished. they wondered how one so charming and graceful could have escaped the stain of an age that was at once sordid and sensual." (p.124)

a vibe!

“To be good is to be in harmony with one’s self,” (p.75)

"nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes." (p.40)

"the more i see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearances of either merit or sense." (p. 156)

"for when the body is corrupt whom you think you have the need of to maintain yourself–it may be either the people or the soldiers or the nobles–you have to submit to its humors and to gratify them, and then good works will do you harm." (p. 59)

"pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." (p. 22)

hour 24 of 24

jwu, slept through hours 2-9 of 24h challenge and ill try to finish this book

hour 2 of 24-hour reading challenge... feeling very sleepy