February 2010
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“I hate you, Gavrila Ardalionovitch, solely (this may seem curious to you, but I...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot, 1968-1969 (via konkarne)
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“I think Dostoevsky was right, that every human being must have a point at which...”
– Rollo May (via mrtommyzee)
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“They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both...”
– — Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (via justchi)
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“If everything on Earth were rational, nothing would happen”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via paleblued0t)
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“Women are not great masters at evaluating the male mind, if they like the man,...”
– Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent (via beethover)
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“Oh, man is decidedly in moral slavery to woman, especially if he is magnanimous!”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent (via beethover)
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“A woman, if she’s in love, likes to be kept in a tight fist. A woman likes...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent (via beethover)
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“An idealist, when he runs his head into reality, is always inclined, before...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent (via beethover)
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“‘I love humanity, but I wonder at myself. The more I love humanity in general,...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.”
– Georg Morris Cohen Brandes, 1889; On Crime and Punishment. (via interludes)
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“It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via allisangelic)
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““Poetry is rubbish anyway,” Smerdyakov snapped.
“Oh no, I don’t go along with...”
– Smerdyakov trying to impress the landlady’s daughter in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. (via graemebooks)
“Myshkin did not even observe that other people were talking and paying attention...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot (via iamholdencaulfield)
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Archbishop of Canterbury tells Tony Blair to read... →
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“Yes, yes, it ended in my corrupting them all! How it could have happened I do...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Dream of a Ridiculous Man.
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“The one essential condition of human existence is that man should always be able...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils (via certainties)
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The Letter That Got Dostoyevsky Exiled →
In 1847, Vissarion Belinsky misinterpreted Gogol’s newest collection of stories and accused him of being anti-abolitionist. Gogol could actually care less about the serfs. Belinsky wrote a famous letter response to Gogol and it was so radical at the time that it could not be published in Russia until 1906.
However, the copied manuscript was read aloud in different radical groups including...
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“People are constantly complaining that we have no practical men; that we have,...”
– the narrator in Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot.
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“I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct...”
– Fyodor Dostevsky’s opening lines from The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877).
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“It is regrettable that no Dostoevsky lived near him.”
– Nietzsche about Jesus
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reason vs. desire
wishuponawhistle:
“Don’t you see: reason is a fine thing, gentlemen, there’s no doubt about it, but it’s only reason, and it satisfies only man’s rational faculty, whereas desire is a manifestation of all life, that is, of all human life, which includes both reason, as well as all of life’s itches and scratches. And although in this manifestation life often turns out to be fairly worthless, it’s...
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“The more I detest men individually, the more ardent becomes my love for Humanity”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via boringshiksa)
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“There is only one thing I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.”
– Dostoyevsky
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“In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality,...”
– Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky (via sammham)
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“Instead of taking over men’s freedom, you increased it and forever...”
– The Grand Inquisitor to Jesus in Ivan’s story in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
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“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (quote used in The Reason for God) (via kaleighm)
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“I love Kafka, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Proust, O’Casey, Rilke,...”
– J.D. Salinger (via ladidaladida)
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“Whether it’s good or bad, smashing something is also very pleasant on occasion.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground (via ghosthost)
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“My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn’t that enough for a whole lifetime?”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via ontheborderland) 