Nastasya Filippovna Quotes

Haven't I dreamed of you myself? You are right, I dreamed of you long ago, when I lived five years all alone in his country home. I used to think and dream, think and dream, and I was always imagining someone like you, kind, good and honest, and so stupid that he would come forward all of a sudden and say, "You are not to blame, Nastasya Filippovna, and I adore you.” I used to dream like that, till I nearly went out of my mind... And then this man would come, stay two months in the year, bringing shame, dishonour, corruption, degradation, and go away. So that a thousand times I wanted to fling myself into the pond, but I was a poor creature, I hadn't the courage...

kendine hâkim olamadığını ama şimdi, artık evlenmek istediğini, bu uygun ve sosyete insanına yakışacak evlenmenin geleceğinin onun, yani Nastasya Filippovna’nın elinde olduğunu anlattı.

You’d take me as I am, with nothing?’ ‘Yes, Nastasya Filippovna …

Everything is perfection in you … even your being thin and pale… . One would not like to imagine you different. … I had such a longing to come to you…. I… forgive me!” “Don’t ask forgiveness,” laughed Nastasya Filippovna; “that would destroy all the strangeness and originality. It’s true what they say, that you are a strange man. So you look upon me as perfection, do you?

You want a lot of looking after, Nastasya Filippovna. I will look after you.