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"He clearly has this incel/ lacking in actual life experience view of Dasha that she's this "drug addicted slut" that blew up her engagement (I mean some iteration of those events/ characterizations are prob accurate but not in the simplified way he sees it as someone that's never done drugs or had s"
"Copiuous amounts of humor in this book. People recommend not reading it when you're depressed but I did anyway and actually fucking giggled at some parts (the officer moving him aside especially). I wake up and thank Tsar Nicholas everyday for sparing that fine affair-prone degen gambling addict."
"Every post on this sub sounds like it would be said by the narrator of Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky. Just non stop complaining about other people and the most random possible things amidst whining about your shitty life and how you have have never had friends or dated"
"In my worst moments I actually relish the negativity of ragebait, doomposting, and the news cycle, which must at least partially explain why I continue to seek them out. Last year I read *Notes from Underground* and felt I was reading a caricature of my worst self."
"In "Notes From Underground," Dostoevsky lampooned the defeated dreamers of the liberal class, those who preached goodness but lived in moral squalor. These defeated dreamers denounced the social and cultural depravity they had largely created. They had an open disdain for the uneducated, the poor, t"
"Just started reading and holy shit this book is so ahead of its time/surprisingly black pilled (hate that I just used that word) for mid 1800s. Already been so many lines that felt like reading my own inner-monologue."
"Anyone into Dostoyevsky? i just started Notes from Underground."
"I AM a sick man. …I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased... One of the best intros to a novel and truly captures the whole essence of the narrative."
"I remember reading it in highschool and feeling 'seen' for the first time. I cried. And I lied about myself just now when I said I was a wicked official. I lied out of wickedness. I was simply playing around both with the petitioners and with the officer, but as a matter of fact I was never able to "
"Do you ask why I tortured and tormented myself? The answer is that it was too boring to sit and do nothing, and so I indulged my fancy. That really is true. Watch yourselves as closely as you can, gentlemen, and you will see that it's true. I imagined happenings, I invented a life, so that I should "
"Just started reading and holy shit this book is so ahead of its time/surprisingly black pilled (hate that I just used that word) for mid 1800s. Already been so many lines that felt like reading my own inner-monologue."
"One of the best intros to a novel and truly captures the whole essence of the narrative"
"I remember reading it in highschool and feeling 'seen' for the first time. I cried."