"Poor Folk" Quotes
"Poor Folk" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky follows the correspondence between a young woman and a destitute civil servant as they navigate poverty and societal expectations in 19th century Russia.
classics | 167 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
I swear to you, Varvara Alexievna, that you are a more gracious and noble spirit than I.
The whole of my life is summed up in that one minute when I was happy; and that minute is the only one in my life when I was happy.
I am not so foolish as to demand love from you, or to expect that you are capable of it. You are not capable of it, Varvara Alexievna.
I feel deeply and painfully that I am unfit for anything, and that fate has ordained that I should be an outcast from the world.
Happiness is not in my destiny; I have always felt it, and it is not my destiny now.
I am not a man, but a poor, crushed, hopeless, defenseless worm, a loathsome worm.
I have not been able to love you, Varvara Alexievna. But I have been able to love your soul.
If I were not a useless old man I would have done something myself without waiting for assistance from others.
I am a sick man. I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts.
I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased.
