

“In every man's memory there are things he won't reveal to others, except, perhaps, to his friends. And there are things he won't reveal even to friends, only, perhaps, to himself, and there, too, in secret. And finally, there are things he is afraid to reveal even to himself, and every decent man has quite an accumulation of them. In fact, the more decent the man, the more of them he has stored up.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground

“Time (as is well known) sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a worm. But a man feels particularly happy when he doesn't even notice whether it's passing quickly or quietly.”
― Fathers and Sons
― Fathers and Sons

“So much have we lost touch with 'real life' that we occasionally feel a kind of disgust for it and so can't bear to be reminded of it. For we have arrived at the point where we look on 'real life' as toil, almost as compulsory service, and all of us privately agree that 'life' as we find it in book is better.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground

“which is better—cheap happiness or exalted sufferings?”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground

“I might foam at the mouth, but bring me a doll to play with, give me a cup of tea with sugar in it, and maybe I should feel appeased.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
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