December 2009
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thenewinquiry: “My God, I’d love to smash into the casket of Dostoevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, ‘Well done, you goddamn genius.”’ -Mel Brooks, “Blazing Brooks” Time Magazine (1975) image via
Dec 31st
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olderloverundercover: one thirty-six a.m. I laugh sometimes when I think about say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky… or Hamsun… ordinary men with feet, ears, eyes, ordinary men with hair on their heads sitting there typing words while having difficulties with life while being puzzled almost to madness. Dostoevsky gets up he leaves the machine to piss, comes back drinks a glass of milk and...
Dec 30th
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“I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground (via ireadintothings)
Dec 30th
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“‘What do you think?’ shouted Razumihin, louder than ever, ‘you think I am...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Dec 29th
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“In a sense we certainly all resemble madman quite often, but with the slight...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via usedbuttons)
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 24th
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“Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dec 22nd
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“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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“All is in a man’s hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice,...”
– Crime and Punishment
Dec 16th
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“The stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupider one is, the...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Dec 15th
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“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself....”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot
Dec 14th
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“Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky This one is for my 15-year-old dog that died last Friday. RIP Pimpo :-(
Dec 13th
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“Yes, that’s what it was! I wanted to become a Napoleon, that is why I killed...”
– Raskolnikov trying to relate, Napoleon probably would disagree
Dec 12th
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“What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via little-fighter)
Dec 12th
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“It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via reginkula)
Dec 12th
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Dec 10th
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“Life is pain, life is fear, and man is unhappy. Now all is pain and fear. Now...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils
Dec 10th
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“You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime And Punishment
Dec 9th
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“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Dec 9th
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“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Dec 9th
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“[N]ever ask the woman for forgiveness! Especially if you really love her,...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Dec 8th
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“But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils
Dec 8th
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“To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Dec 7th
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“Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Dec 7th
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“When… in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in...”
– Notes From The Underground
Dec 7th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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“Faith does not, in the realist, spring from miracles - but the miracles from...”
– The Brothers Karamazov
Dec 5th
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“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at...”
– Dostoyevsky
Dec 5th
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“To live without hope is to cease to live.”
– Dostoyevsky
Dec 5th
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“Already on twenty or so occasions I have observed as I approached the gambling table that if one plays coolly, calmly and with calculation it is quite impossible to lose! I swear - it is an absolute impossibility!” -Dostoevsky in a letter to his wife Anna Grigorievna
Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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“The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he...”
Dec 2nd
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“Where is it I’ve read that someone condemned to death says or think, an hour...”
– From Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (via joshisinfinite)
Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left...”
– Dostoyevsky
Dec 1st
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Dec 1st