

“How can a man of consciousness have the slightest respect for himself”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground

“I like revisiting, at certain times, spots where I was once happy; I like to shape the present in the image of the irretrievable past.”
― White Nights
― White Nights

“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
― Nausea
― Nausea

“To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground

“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
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