## Metadata - Author: [[Alex Christofi]] - Full Title: Dostoevsky in Love - Category: #books ## Highlights - In a confined space, even thought is cramped. ([Location 1169](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08KHKSH7N&location=1169)) - It is now almost five years that I have been under guard among a crowd of people, and I never had a single hour alone. To be alone is a normal need, like eating and drinking – otherwise, this forced communism becomes an unbearable torture. It was this that made me suffer most during those four years. ([Location 1172](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08KHKSH7N&location=1172)) - By the end of November, he had already written most of a novel, but then he thought of a new plan that was even better, burned it all and started again. Katkov agreed to pay him a decent advance, so the novel would be serialised for a year starting in January 1866. Subscribers to The Russian Herald that year were either the luckiest or the most discerning in the history of literary journals, as they were now reading what would become two of the great works of world literature serially, one by Tolstoy, and the other by Dostoevsky. Both books pitted Napoleonic hubris and violence against Christlike redemption. Tolstoy’s canvas for War and Peace was society;8 Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment depicted the war for a single soul. ([Location 2217](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08KHKSH7N&location=2217)) - the great promise of children is that your suffering will be mirrored in their happiness. ([Location 3231](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08KHKSH7N&location=3231)) - grief is unspent love, ([Location 3528](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08KHKSH7N&location=3528))