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“At home, I read more than anything. I wanted to deaden all that was constantly boiling inside me with external sensations. And of all available external sensations, the only one for me was reading. Reading, of course, helped a lot – it excited, pleasured and tormented. But at times it bored me terribly. After all, I still wanted to do something.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

"Duvarı yıkmaya gücüm yetmiyorsa kendimi parçalayacak değilim elbette. Ama önümde duvar var diye boyun eğmeyi de kabullenemem." Der ya Fyodor Dostoyevski Yeraltından Notlar'ında. Truman Show için hazırlanmış bir söz gibi gelir bana hep...

"And where there is no love, there is no reason either."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes From Underground

when nastasya filippovna wrote “I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me” and raskolnikov told sonya “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing” and liza said “It has always seemed to me that you would bring me to some place where there lives a huge, evil spider, as big as a man, and we would spend our whole life there looking at him and being afraid” and the underground man was like “It was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier, that it was horrible, but that it could not be otherwise; that there was no escape for you; that you never could become a different man; that even if time and faith were still left you to change into something different you would most likely not wish to change; or if you did wish to, even then you would do nothing; because perhaps in reality there was nothing for you to change into” and ivan said “I must respectfully return the ticket” i. just. Felt that.