Notes from the Underground — Vocabulary
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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She could not, however, have been called a beauty, though she was tall, strong-looking, and well built.†39 more

Owing to its rarity, perhaps, any external event, however trivial, always made me feel as though some radical change in my life were at hand.39 more

I exercise myself in reflection, and consequently with me every primary cause at once draws after itself another still more primary, and so on to infinity.18 more

He always thought me of no consequence whatever; his behaviour to me, though not quite courteous, was tolerable.†18 more

It is loathsome to remember it all, but it was loathsome even then.†20 more

...it showed itself in acute depression.12 more

It may be an acutely conscious mouse, yet it is a mouse,12 more

We sometimes choose absolute nonsense because in our foolishness we see in that nonsense the easiest means for attaining a supposed advantage.†12 more

And the worst of it was, and the root of it all, that it was all in accord with the normal fundamental laws of over-acute consciousness, and with the inertia that was the direct result of those laws, and that consequently one was not only unable to change but could do absolutely nothing.†5 more

Even if I were to ask the director himself to be my second tomorrow, he would be bound to consent, if only from a feeling of chivalry, and to keep the secret!†5 more

The day after tomorrow, at the latest, you will begin despising yourself for having knowingly deceived yourself.†16 more

...a stare more than severe, utterly contemptuous.13 more

I was not drunk—but what is one to do—depression will drive a man to such a pitch of hysteria?†10 more

My room is a wretched, horrid one in the outskirts of the town.†9 more

...I love all that is "sublime and beautiful."16 more

Thus it would follow, as the result of acute consciousness, that one is not to blame in being a scoundrel; as though that were any consolation to the scoundrel once he has come to realise that he actually is a scoundrel.†9 more

But when all that is explained and worked out on paper (which is perfectly possible, for it is contemptible and senseless to suppose that some laws of nature man will never understand), then certainly so-called desires will no longer exist.†6 more

I recalled, too, that during those two hours I had not said a single word to this creature, and had, in fact, considered it utterly superfluous; in fact, the silence had for some reason gratified me.†3 more

But I could not subjugate all of them; my friend was not at all like them either, he was, in fact, a rare exception.†4 more

You may have sincerity, but you have no modesty; out of the pettiest vanity you expose your sincerity to publicity and ignominy.†3 more