March 2010
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“Be not comforted. Consolation is not what you need. Weep and be not consoled,...”
– Father Zosima in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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“For there can be no judge of a criminal on earth until the judge knows that he,...”
– The Elder Zosima - Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” (via debenmpls)
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“Good God!” he cried, “can it be, can it be, that I shall really take an axe,...”
– - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
(via hungeroftheyoung)
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“Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one… …I had...”
– Akira Kurosawa
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“Most of all I dread mediocrity : a work should either be very good or very...”
– Dostoevsky on a letter to his niece, 1867
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“Without war, people grow torpid in riches and comfort, and lose the power of...”
– Dostoevsky on a letter to his niece, 1870
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“Happiness is meted out to us but once in life ; all that comes afterwards...”
– Dostoesvky on a letter to his niece, 1870
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12-hour play to be staged in New York →
newyox:
12-hour play to be staged in New York: http://nyti.ms/b1Aoev
The last ticket available to the general public was sold at about 3:30 p.m. on Friday for “The Demons” a 12-hour production in Italian of the Dostoevsky novel
Could you handle it?
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“They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Epilogue (via estherthanthou)
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“…but in my opinion miracles will never confound a realist. It is not miracles...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karmazov” (via debenmpls)
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“I know you don’t believe it—but, by God life will sustain you. Later you’ll...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (via insipidlove)
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“My feeling must be of the species they call passion…One thing I know for sure:...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Adolescent (via stellavee)
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“Many things have been ascribed to Dostoyevsky which just aren’t true. For...”
– Andrei Tarkovsky
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“Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will...”
– Notes from Underground (via ksenia)
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“The jealous man can forgive extraordinarily quickly (though, of course, after a...”
– The Brothers Karamazov
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“It is clear to me now that, owing to my unbounded vanity and to the high...”
– Notes from Underground (via candy-says)
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“The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.”
– Albert Camus
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“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”
– Dostoyevsky (via notethisdown)
mylifeincoffeespoons asked: How does one find the strength to get up each morning and face the day?
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“Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.”
– Dostoyevsky (via swashbuckling)
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“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left...”
– Dostoyevsky (via myselfandme)
Hey
Just remembering fellas, you can always ask us questions throught tumblr and follow Mr. D via twitter.
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“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via blackkbigote)
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ilivedtoo:
“… You were quite right in saying one would fain love with one’s heart and one’s bowels. I am thrilled with your ardour for life. To my mind, we ought to love life more than anything.” “Love life rather than the meaning of life?” “Yes. Love it before finding reasons why; without logic, as you said; that’s the only way to get at its meaning.”
- The Brothers Karamazov.
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“…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground (via firevaney)
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“I realized that if we have to wait for everybody to become clever it will take...”
– Crime and Punishment (via ninz) (via substitutescene)
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“Gentlemen, … look around you at the gifts of God, the clear sky, the pure air,...”
– Zossima: The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky (via mllereisz)
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“You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory,...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via adarkcongregation)
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“The formula two and two make five is not without its attractions.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via arbitrareum)
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“It was as though an abcess that had been forming for a month past on his heart...”
– Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky (via formattedfreedom)
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“-To my mind, we ought to love life more than anything.
-Love life rather than...”
– Brothers Karamazov (via poojapocolypse)
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“Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via madelyneliza)
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“Dreams seem to be induced not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by...”
– The Dream of A Ridiculous Man - Fyodor Dostoevsky (via bunneyinmotion)
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“A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (via boondocks)
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“Dreams, as we all know, are very queer things: some parts are presented with...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (via boondocks)
The biggest question
fuckyeahrussianliterature:
Who’s your favorite russian writer?
AHEM AHEM
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“Well, after all, what if someday they really do discover the formula for all our...”
– Dostoevsky’s Underground Man, Notes from Underground. (via fakeempires)
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“Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via boondocks)
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“I swear to you, gentlemen, to be overly conscious is an illness.”
– The unnamed narrator, Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky (via new-mind)
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“We’re always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood,...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via landofthepine)
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“Not only could I not become spiteful, I could not even becomes anything: neither...”
– Dostoevsky (via nebachanezar) 