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Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky

NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by

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“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, amazon.com

Tagged: Depression

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com

Tagged: human beings, Human Behavior, Happiness, Troubles, Life

“You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com

Tagged: Deep, Worrying

“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com

Tagged: motivation, Deep

“Something in my soul was rising, rising, ceaselessly, painfully, and refused to be still.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetic, Metaphor

“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com

Tagged: Existence, Imagination, Adventures

“Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com

Tagged: Challenge, contempt, life's critics, Life, social utopianism