Thread by @AlexAndBooks_

I just finished my first Dostoevsky novel.

It’s unlike anything else I’ve ever read.

Here are 10 quotes that hit me hard:

1) "I swear to you, gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, full-blown sickness."

2) "He is ready intentionally to distort the truth, to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear, only so as to justify his logic."

3) "We sometimes want pure rubbish precisely because...we see this rubbish as the easiest path to the attainment of some preconceived profit."

4) "The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful."

5) "Man loves creating...But why does he so passionately love destruction and chaos as well?"

6) "For man sometimes loves suffering terribly much, to the point of passion."

7) "You insist that you are not afraid of anything, and at the same time you court our opinion."

8) "Reading was, of course, a great help–it stirred, delighted, and tormented men."

9) "With love one can live even without happiness."

10) "Man only likes counting his grief, he doesn't count his happiness."

Which Dostoevsky book should I read next?