December 2010
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We are so divorced from it [life] that we feel at once a sort of loathing for...
– Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (via nymphora)
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I don’t need money, or, better, it’s not money that I need; it’s not even power;...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Adolescent (via ryannapier)
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Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
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I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help...
– White Nights
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…finally, I couldn’t imagine how I could live without books, and I...
– Nastenka, from White Nights
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The other day I saw a wedding… But no! I would rather tell you about a...
– The Christmas Tree and the Wedding opening lines
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If you kick me, you must believe in my reality, for people don’t kick ghosts.
– Satan, The Brothers Karamazov (via theonlyphoenix)
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I was already hating you because I had lied to you. Because all I could do was...
– Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (via couldlooklikedew)
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… my lodgings were my private domain, my shell, the case into which I withdrew...
– Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (via couldlooklikedew)
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And I will, naturally, go into a funk, as usual: I’ll simper and fuss before...
– Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (via couldlooklikedew)
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The Karamazovs are not blackguards, but philosophers; for all true Russians are...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via nov2)
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You believe in the crystal place, eternally indestructible, that is, one at...
– Dostoevsky’s Notes From the Underground (via madmads)
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But that’s the horror of it, my noble friend, that all these accusations of...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler (via ryannapier)
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I just want to drag on until I’m thirty, and then-smash the cup on the floor!
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via dhawley)
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And he’ll sing Blueberry Hill for you!
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Man is a frivolous, a specious creature, and like a Chess player, cares more for...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via enpasant)
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Whatever you may say,
I shall go far away.
Life will be bright and gay
In the...
– Smerdyakov, The Brothers Karamazov (via adventurerofplaces)
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There is silent and long-suffering sorrow to be met with. It withdraws into...
– The Brothers Karamazov (Part I, Book II, Chapter 3), Fyodor Dostoevsky (via mer-et-soleil)
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Tomorrow, let’s leave it all to tomorrow.
– F. Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (via cloud-scapes)
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Who could say that human nature can endure such a trial without slipping into...
– The Idiot, Dostoevsky. (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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…Think! When there is torture there is pain and wounds, physical agony, and all...
– The Idiot, Dostoevsky. (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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