Notes from Underground & Other Stories Quotes

“But it is just in that cold, abominable half despair, half belief, in that conscious burying oneself alive for grief in the underworld for forty years, in that acutely recognised and yet partly doubtful hopelessness of one's position, in that hell of unsatisfied desires turned inward, in that fever of oscillations, of resolutions determined for ever and repented of again a minute later--that the savour of that strange enjoyment of which I have spoken lies.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground & Other Stories

“Moreover, I felt weak and in the right mood, and besides, shamming so easily coexists with sincere feeling.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground & Other Stories