| I can always relate to his narrators they're all so sociable and happy with no problems whatsoever or some of his other characters | The entire writing is superbly done that the reader feels that Dostoyevsky is telling your own story |
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| Is that too little for the whole of man's life? This year I'm hoping to finally get around to reading The Brothers Karamazov so I'm not finished with ol' Dostoyevsky in '21 yet | I am a dreamer; I have so little real life that I look upon such moments as this now, as so rare, that I cannot help going over such moments again in my dreams |
Dostoyevsky had an exceptionally brilliant way to describe his characters, their inner processes, feelings, thoughts, and if you can relate to any of them, or find them remotely familiar, well my friend, you're stuck with them.
11| You won't fail me, will you? Where would we be without it, because, I dare say, almost all of us have experienced it; some on the receiving end, some on the giving end | Or this kind of book |
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| I think this is probably one of the most romantic stories written about falling in love for the first time and having your heart broken for the first time, touching with the author's characteristic keen insight on something fundamental about our efforts to go out of our shells and connect with another human being | He loves the city at night, and feels comfortable in it |
BUT, I found White Nights, lost on my bookshelves.