⠀ ⠀ began: 01.05.2026⠀ | ⠀ finished: 01.06.2026

GENRE: romantic novella, russian literature

NOTES

• this is my first dostoyevsky book. i love the way he writes out the characters thoughts and feelings towards his surroundings and other people. i sort of see myself in this dreamer.
• such a beautifully written novella. teared up at the end.

QUOTES

• "...he desires nothing, because he is superior to all desire, because he has everything, because he is satiated, because he is the artist of his own life, and creates it for himself every hour to suit his latest whim."
• "meanwhile, you hear the vortex of life all around you; you hear, you see, men living in reality; you see that life for them is not forbidden, that their life does not float away like a dream, like a vision; that their life is being eternally renewed, eternally youthful, and not one hour of it is the same as another..."