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Superfluous
...If I had a reader and he had read all I have written so far of my adventures, there would be certainly no need to inform him that I am not created for any sort of society...
-A Raw Youth, by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
...Generally speaking, all my life up to now, in all my dreams of how I would behave with people, I always imagined myself being very clever; it was very different in reality--I was always very stupid; and I confess sincerely, with indignation, I always gave myself away and was flustered, and so I resolved to cut people off altogether...
-A Raw Youth, by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Silly
..."To send a special official," he said at last,
"to the inside of a crocodile to conduct a special inquiry is,
in my personal opinion, an absurdity. It is not in the regulations.
And what sort of special inquiry could there be there?"
"The scientific study of nature on the spot, in the living
subject. The natural sciences are all the fashion nowadays, botany.
. . . He could live there and report his observations. ... For
instance, concerning digestion or simply habits. For the sake of
accumulating facts."
"You mean as statistics. Well, I
am no great authority on that subject, indeed I am no philosopher at
all. You say 'facts'-we are overwhelmed with facts as it is, and
don't know what to do with them. Besides, statistics are a
danger."
"In what way?"
"They are a
danger."...
-The Crocodile, by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
The Ocean Doesn't Want Me Today
...Laugh away; I will put up with any mockery rather than
pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry. I know, anyway, that I
will not be put off with a compromise, with a recurring zero, simply
because it is consistent with the laws of nature and actually exists.
I will not accept as the crown of my desires a block of buildings
with tenements for the poor on a lease of a thousand years, and
perhaps with a sign-board of a dentist hanging out. Destroy my
desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will
follow you. You will say, perhaps, that it is not worth your trouble;
but in that case I can give you the same answer. We are discussing
things seriously; but if you won't deign to give me your attention, I
will drop your acquaintance. I can retreat into my underground
hole...
-Notes from the Underground, by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Random Flailing At Sparrows
...A happy thought flashed upon my mind. "Cannot we
arrange," I said, "that, if he is destined to remain in the
entrails of the monster and it is the will of Providence that he
should remain alive, he should send in a petition to be reckoned as
still serving?"
"Hm! ... Possibly as on leave and
without salary" ...
-The Crocodile, by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
...I have long thirsted for an opportunity for being talked about, but could not attain it, fettered by my humble position and low grade in the service. And now all this has been attained by a simple gulp on the part of the crocodile. Every word of mine will be listened to, every utterance will be thought over, repeated, printed. And I'll teach them what I am worth! They shall understand at last what abilities they have allowed to vanish in the entrails of a monster...
-The Crocodile, by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
...But do you know, gentlemen, what was the chief point about my spite? Why, the whole point, the real sting of it lay in the fact that continually, even in the moment of the acutest spleen, I was inwardly conscious with shame that I was not only not a spiteful but not even an embittered man, that I was simply scaring sparrows at random and amusing myself by it...
-Notes from the Underground, by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
...But I know for certain, though, that some women fascinate by their beauty, or by anything you like, all in a minute, while you may ruminate over another for six months before you understand what is in her; and that to see through and love such a woman it is not enough to look at her, it is not enough to be simply ready for anything, one must have a special gift besides. Of that I am convinced, although I do know nothing about it: and if it were not true it would mean degrading all women to the level of domestic animals, and only keeping them about one as such; possibly this is what very many people would like...
-A Raw Youth, by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
"Of course, one always learns SOMETHING EVERYWHERE," said the Frenchman in a careless, contemptuous sort of tone...
-The Gambler, by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
...Whoever you may be, if you exist, and if anything more rational that what is happening here is possible, suffer it to be here now. But if you are revenging yourself upon me for my senseless suicide by the hideousness and absurdity of this subsequent existence, then let me tell you that no torture could ever equal the contempt which I shall go on dumbly feeling, though my martyrdom may last a million years!...
-The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
...I will add: I am dreadfully sorry that I have several times in this narrative allowed myself to take up a disrespectful and superior attitude in regard to Versilov. But as I wrote I imagined myself precisely at each of the moments I was describing. As I finish my narrative and write the last lines, I suddenly feel by the very process of recalling and recording, I have re-educated myself. I regret a great deal I have written, especially the tone of certain sentences and pages, but I will not cross them out or correct a single word...
-A Raw Youth, by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
U Flail! Grrrrrl
...She's infinitely nobler than you, morally anyway, excuse
my saying so...
but she's only an infinitely noble corpse...
-A Raw Youth, by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
S & M
...I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too...
-Notes from the Underground, by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
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