February 2012
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She was no more than fourteen, but that heart bad been broken, and had destroyed...
– Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (via pisatofevrale)
January 2012
12 posts
…As it turns out, there isn’t even anyone to be angry with; that there is no...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (via hippunk)
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Only look about you: blood is being spilt in the streams, and in the merriest...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground, 1864 (via militantsnoozer)
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… And what is it that civilization softens in us? The only gain of civilization...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground (via daplaney)
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Everyone in the world is good, every one of them. The world is a good place. We...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via outofthedarkness)
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I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot (via ru2)
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I was so used to thinking and imagining everything from books, and to picturing...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground (via wakeupnietzsche)
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I often used to think I was like Raskolnikov, except I never met Sonia.
– Ushikawa in Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 (via savanna)
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Why am I going there now? Am I capable of that? Is that serious? It is not...
– Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment. (via taiamadeleine)
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In words you may say and imply anything you like; but to decide, to begin, and...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Adolescent (via mecham)
December 2011
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The stupider, the clearer. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while reason hedges...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via outofthedarkness)
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Many times I’ve asked myself whether there is anything in the world that could...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via fromtheinsight)
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If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
– Russian Proverb, as quoted in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. (via internalpolicy)
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He lay like that for a very long time. Occasionally he seemed to wake up, and in...
– Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (via liberumarbitriumindifferentiae)
November 2011
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why does even the best person hold back something from another? why not say...
– dostoyevsky, white nights. (via swarbles)
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mizaj:
“Trifles, trifles are what matter! Why, it’s just such trifles that always ruin everything….”
Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
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He told me that all the good, simple people in his novels … are what he wanted...
– Dostoyevsky on Charles Dickens via “Being Charles Dickens” (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that’s a great injustice and...
– The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, p. 220. (via thisisntlisa)
October 2011
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There is something indescribably moving in the way nature in Petersburg,...
– White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via ituccio)
His concern was always what it is to be a human being - that is, how to be an...
– David Foster Wallace on Dostoevsky (via maxistentialist)
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You’re bound to grow out of your ideals; they’re smashed to splinters and turn...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s White Nights (via tealrallythong)
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Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as...
– Ernest Hemingway (via tealrallythong)
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There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky,The Idiot (via substancem)
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I have taken to celebrating the anniversaries of my sensations, the anniversary...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s White Nights (via tealrallythong)
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If only fate had ranted him remorse, scalding remorse, harrowing the heart and...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (via greatrelease)
September 2011
18 posts
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Two is company, three is none.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (via greatrelease)
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The high road is something very, very long, of which one cannot see the end -...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Possessed (via clioooooo)
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Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (via hbanana22)