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Razumihin Quotes

47 of the best book quotes from Razumihin
01
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
02
“I am always knocking my head. You call this a lodging!
Source: Chapter 11, Paragraph 8
03
When you decamped in that rascally way without leaving your address, I felt so angry that I resolved to find you out and punish you.
Source: Chapter 11, Paragraph 62
04
And that promise of marriage when her daughter, Natalya Yegorovna, was alive?.. I know all about it! But I see that’s a delicate matter and I am an ass; forgive me.
Source: Chapter 11, Paragraph 72
05
But, talking of foolishness, do you know Praskovya Pavlovna is not nearly so foolish as you would think at first sight?”
Source: Chapter 11, Paragraph 72
06
“But she is not very clever either, eh? She is essentially, essentially an unaccountable character!
Source: Chapter 11, Paragraph 74
07
“But I swear I judge her intellectually, simply from the metaphysical point of view; there is a sort of symbolism sprung up between us, a sort of algebra or what not! I don’t understand it!”
Source: Chapter 11, Paragraph 74
08
“I see, brother,” he said a moment later, “that I have been playing the fool again. I thought I should amuse you with my chatter, and I believe I have only made you cross.”
Source: Chapter 11, Paragraph 78
09
“he has forgotten. I fancied then that you were not quite yourself. Now you are better for your sleep.... You really look much better. First-rate! Well, to business. Look here, my dear boy.”
Source: Chapter 11, Paragraph 108
10
“I did not go empty- handed— they took the size from this monster. We all did our best.”
Source: Chapter 11, Paragraph 116
11
“And now, brother, let me change your linen, for I daresay you will throw off your illness with your shirt.”
Source: Chapter 11, Paragraph 116
12
“And I wouldn’t give more than one for you. No more of your jokes! Zametov is no more than a boy. I can pull his hair and one must draw him not repel him. You’ll never improve a man by repelling him, especially a boy. One has to be twice as careful with a boy. Oh, you progressive dullards! You don’t understand. You harm yourselves running another man down.... But if you want to know, we really have something in common.”
Source: Chapter 12, Paragraph 28
13
“What’s the most offensive is not their lying—one can always forgive lying—lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth—what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying....”
Source: Chapter 12, Paragraph 44
14
“How can you, a doctor, whose duty it is to study man and who has more opportunity than anyone else for studying human nature—how can you fail to see the character of the man in the whole story?
Source: Chapter 12, Paragraph 64
15
“Too clever! No, my boy, you’re too clever. That beats everything.”
Source: Chapter 12, Paragraph 75
16
“Why, because everything fits too well... it’s too melodramatic.”
Source: Chapter 12, Paragraph 77
17
“whose familiarity seemed so much like unaffected good-nature”
Source: Chapter 13, Paragraph 20
18
“Practicality is a difficult thing to find; it does not drop down from heaven. And for the last two hundred years we have been divorced from all practical life. Ideas, if you like, are fermenting,”
Source: Chapter 13, Paragraph 48
19
“and desire for good exists, though it’s in a childish form, and honesty you may find, although there are crowds of brigands.”
Source: Chapter 13, Paragraph 48
20
Though why shouldn’t you imagine? Don’t we talk nonsense ourselves?
Source: Chapter 15, Paragraph 121
21
“If you stay, though you are his mother, you’ll drive him to a frenzy, and then goodness knows what will happen!
Source: Chapter 16, Paragraph 34
22
“But I am a fool, too!... No matter! Come along! Do you trust me? Come, do you trust me or not?”
Source: Chapter 16, Paragraph 34
23
“You see, you... you... understand me, because you are an angel!”
Source: Chapter 16, Paragraph 36
24
“But don’t mind me! Don’t take any notice: I am talking nonsense, I am not worthy of you.... I am utterly unworthy of you!
Source: Chapter 16, Paragraph 38
25
“If only you knew how I love you both! Don’t laugh, and don’t be angry! You may be angry with anyone, but not with me!
Source: Chapter 16, Paragraph 38
26
“I am his friend, and therefore I am your friend, too, I want to be...
Source: Chapter 16, Paragraph 38
27
Would you believe, they insist on complete absence of individualism and that’s just what they relish!
Source: Chapter 16, Paragraph 41
28
You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.
Source: Chapter 16, Paragraph 43
29
Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I’ll kiss you for it.
Source: Chapter 16, Paragraph 43
30
Truth won’t escape you, but life can be cramped.
Source: Chapter 16, Paragraph 43
31
We prefer to live on other people’s ideas, it’s what we are used to!
Source: Chapter 16, Paragraph 43
32
“you are a fount of goodness, purity, sense... and perfection.”
Source: Chapter 16, Paragraph 46
33
I am not worthy to love you, but to do homage to you is the duty of every man who is not a perfect beast!
Source: Chapter 16, Paragraph 49
34
“though all my friends there are drunk, yet they are all honest, and though we do talk a lot of trash, and I do, too, yet we shall talk our way to the truth at last, for we are on the right path, while Pyotr Petrovitch... is not on the right path.
Source: Chapter 16, Paragraph 51
35
“And... the worst of it was he was so coarse, so dirty, he had the manners of a pothouse; and... and even admitting that he knew he had some of the essentials of a gentleman... what was there in that to be proud of? Everyone ought to be a gentleman and more than that...
Source: Chapter 17, Paragraph 6
36
So be it! Well, he’d make a point then of being dirty, greasy, pothouse in his manners and he wouldn’t care! He’d be worse!”
Source: Chapter 17, Paragraph 6
37
He says he is so busy that everything is a hindrance, and yet he lies in bed doing nothing.
Source: Chapter 17, Paragraph 32
38
They say, too, the girl was not at all pretty, in fact I am told positively ugly... and such an invalid... and queer.
Source: Chapter 17, Paragraph 46
39
“If I spoke so rudely of him last night, it was because I was disgustingly drunk and... mad besides; yes, mad, crazy, I lost my head completely...”
Source: Chapter 17, Paragraph 52
40
What generous impulses he has, and how simply, how delicately he put an end to all the misunderstanding with his sister—simply by holding out his hand at the right minute and looking at her like that....
Source: Chapter 18, Paragraph 20
41
“He is incredulous, sceptical, cynical... he likes to impose on people, or rather to make fun of them.”
Source: Chapter 19, Paragraph 100
42
One moment you were angry, and the next your face looked like a sweetmeat.
Source: Chapter 19, Paragraph 114
43
Human nature is not taken into account, it is excluded, it’s not supposed to exist!
Source: Chapter 20, Paragraph 75
44
That’s why they instinctively dislike history, ‘nothing but ugliness and stupidity in it,’ and they explain it all as stupidity!
Source: Chapter 20, Paragraph 75
45
That’s why they so dislike the living process of life; they don’t want a living soul!
Source: Chapter 20, Paragraph 75
46
“I told her you were a very good, honest, and industrious man. I didn’t tell her you love her, because she knows that herself.”
Source: Chapter 33, Paragraph 31
47
Yesterday a man said to me that what a man needs is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air. I mean to go to him directly to find out what he meant by that.”
Source: Chapter 33, Paragraph 35

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