Andreea Corduneanu

“But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

“It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler

“if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler

“Do you know that one day I'll kill you? I won't do it because I'm no longer in love with you, or because I'm jealous, but—I'll just kill you for no better reason that I sometimes long to devour you.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler