The Double and The Gambler Quotes

“friendship is mostly based on humiliation; and that is an old truth known to all intelligent people.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double and the Gambler

“She always laughed very gaily and sometimes even sincerely.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double and the Gambler

“I repeat for the last time: do you need my life or not?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double and the Gambler

“His position at that moment was like the position of a man standing over a frightful precipice, when the earth breaks away under him, is rocking, shifting, sways for a last time, and falls, drawing him into the abyss, and meanwhile the unfortunate man has neither the strength nor the firmness of spirit to jump back, to take his eyes from the yawning chasm; the abyss draws him, and he finally leaps into it himself, himself hastening the moment of his own perdition.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Double and The Gambler

“Though the sleepy, myopic, and rather bald-pated figure reflected in the mirror was precisely of such insignificant quality as to arrest decidedly no one's exclusive attention at first sight, its owner evidently remained perfectly pleased with all he saw in the mirror.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Double and The Gambler

“That is, you’re inwardly gnashing your teeth in vexation because I’m not crushed and humiliated,” I said, laughing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double and the Gambler

“I may find the man in me before he’s lost!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double and the Gambler

“Who this dwarf was, I don’t know: a relation of hers perhaps, or else just brought along for effect.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double and the Gambler

“A Frenchman is rarely amiable by nature; he is always amiable as if on command, out of calculation.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double and the Gambler

“Something sheeplike in the expression of his face, which in its way replaces profundity.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double and the Gambler

“Man is a despot by nature and likes to play the torturer.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double and the Gambler

“invite a pig to the table and he’ll put his feet on it.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double and the Gambler

“The piercing, furious shouts of all his enemies came rolling after him in the guise of a farewell.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double and the Gambler

“we heed the voice of calumny and listen to our enemies, without accepting justification from the other side, then, of course…of course,”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double and the Gambler

“preferring the verity of the personal to the written,”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double and the Gambler

“Not trusting himself, he began to check all he had written—and understood nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double and the Gambler