I create entire romances in my dreams.
I could not even imagine any place of secondary importance for myself, and for that very reason I quite contentedly occupied the most insignificant one in real life. Either a hero or dirt - there was...
I can but thank you, he said, in a tone too respectful to be sincere, for your kindness in letting me speak, for I have often noticed that our Liberals never allow other people to have an opinion of t...
I ask, I demand to be respected! Shatov went on shouting. Not for my person--to hell with it--but for something else, just for now, for a few words...We are two beings, and we have come together in in...
I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I remain as ridiculous in their eyes as before. But now I do not resent it, they are all dear to me n...
How thin she is in her coffin, how sharp her nose has grown! Her eyelashes lie straight as arrows. And, you know, when she fell, nothing was crushed, nothing was broken! Nothing but that handful of bl...
Hm … yes, all is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom
Hm ... yes ... a man holds the fate of the world in his two hands, and yet, simply because he is afraid, he just lets things drift -- that is a truism ... I wonder what men are most afraid of ...
Hesitation, anxiety, the struggle between belief and disbelief—all that is sometimes such a torment for a conscientious man... that it’s better to hang oneself.
Her gloves, as Razumihin noticed, were not merely shabby but had holes in them, and yet this evident poverty gave the two ladies an air of special dignity, which is always found in people who know how...
He would shoot his adversary in a duel, and go against a bear if need be, and fight off a robber in the forest--all as successfully and fearlessly as L---n, yet without any sense of enjoyment, but sol...
He was one of those idealistic beings common in Russia, who are suddenly struck by some overmastering idea which seems, as it were, to crush them at once, and sometimes for ever. They are never equal...
He was hopelessly in debt to his landlady, and was afraid of meeting her.
He was an example of everything that is opposed to civic duty, of the most complete and malignant individualism.
He wants money for nothing, without waiting or working! We’ve grown used to having everything ready made, to walking on crutches, to having our food chewed for us. Then the great hour struck, and ever...
He thirsted for this resurrection and renewal. The vile bog he had gotten stuck in of his own free will burdened him too much, and, like a great many men in such cases, he believed most of all in a ch...
He seemed to be very dark-haired, lean, and swarthy; his eyes were large, undoubtedly black, very shiny, and had a yellow cast, like a Gypsy’s—that could be guessed even in the dark. He must have been...
He noticed that Ivan swayed as he walked and that his right shoulder was lower than his left. He had never noticed it before.
He entered a confectioner's shop to rest, once. He was in a state of nervous excitement and perturbation; he noticed nothing and no one; and he felt a craving for solitude, to be alone with his though...