“ And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much! ”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (1867). copy citation
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
|---|---|
| Source | Crime and Punishment |
| Topic | feeling drinking sympathy |
| Date | 1867 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by Constance Garnett |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2554/2554-h/2554-h.htm |
Context
“We have three little children and Katerina Ivanovna is at work from morning till night; she is scrubbing and cleaning and washing the children, for she's been used to cleanliness from a child. But her chest is weak and she has a tendency to consumption and I feel it! Do you suppose I don't feel it? And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink…. I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!» And as though in despair he laid his head down on the table.
«Young man,» he went on, raising his head again, «in your face I seem to read some trouble of mind. When you came in I read it, and that was why I addressed you at once.” source
«Young man,» he went on, raising his head again, «in your face I seem to read some trouble of mind. When you came in I read it, and that was why I addressed you at once.” source
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