January 2011
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“As is known, however, a man too carried away by passion, especially if he is of...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky in The Idiot (1868). Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Everyman’s Library). (via whatdavereads)
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“To go on, however — what can a decent man talk about with the greatest pleasure?...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground (via awhirlingdervish)
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“And will it not be better?” I mused fantastically, afterwards at home, stifling...”
– Notes from the Underground, F.Dostoevsky (via imaginaryunit)
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“And what is there to wonder at in that, since I had succeeded in so corrupting...”
– Notes from the Underground, F.Dostoevsky (via imaginaryunit)
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“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than...”
– Dostoyevsky
This quote has helped me much as I’ve dealt with my miriad of psych disorders. I was convinced I was a horrible person being punished my an unkind God but I slowly am realizing I’m not bad, I’m just flawed. Probably totally off topic to the qoute but I thought I’d contribute. (via...
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“I was dissolute, but I loved goodness. Every moment I was anxious to reform, but...”
– Mitya (from The Brothers Karamazov)
“He had become so completely absorbed in himself, and isolated from his fellows...”
– Crime and Punishment
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“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky in Notes from the Underground (via samreynard)
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“‘What is the Mother of God, in your view?’ ‘The great mother,’ I answered, ‘the...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons (1872) (via monsieurdavison)
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The Brothers Karamazov
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“The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.” Fyodor.
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“‘Ah, children, ah, dear friends, do not be afraid of life! How good life is when...”
– Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov,” pg. 776 (via egallion)
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“‘Eloquence aside, gentlemen, people can’t be allowed to go breaking their...”
– Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov,” pg. 752 (via egallion)
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and as soon as Alyosha had gone,
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Lise unbolted the door, opened it a little, put her finger in the crack, and slamming the door, pinched her finger with all the force at her command. Ten seconds later, releasing her finger, she went back to her chair slowly and quietly, sat up erect in it, and began examining intently her blackened finger and the blood that oozed from under the nail. Her lips quivered, and she...
“Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (via canifreeformthis)
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“Why is it that long, sleepless nights pass, as though they were an infinitesimal...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights. (via tijanaxxx)
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“The sky was so bright and starry that when you looked at it the first question...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights. (via tijanaxxx)
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“Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I consider myself to be an intelligent man simply because...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (via undergroundstickynotes)
“You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are...”
– Crime & Punishment; Dostoevsky.
finishing this book up and having my mind blown. these words would be really inspiring if you don’t realize that what he’s daring to do is become a murderer.
(via ohgreatintentions)
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“‘I used to sit hiding from people…not sleeping all night, thinking: ‘Where is he...”
– Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov,” pg. 353-4 (via egallion)
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“‘You’ll make shoes for me, Ratika, that’s what I’ll have you do, and you’ll...”
– Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov,” pg. 356 (via egallion)
Do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world!
From Demons (The Possessed)
“The strength of the Russian land is in its birches.”
– Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov,” pg. 132 (via egallion)
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“Where is it I’ve read that someone condemned to death says or think, an hour...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (submitted by subliminalkim)
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“We are not in the boudoir of a mincing lady, but like two abstract creatures in...”
– The Possessed (via dostoy)
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“Alyosha “pierced his heart” by “living with him, seeing...”
– The Brothers Karamazov (submitted by scho)
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“Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via elina-astra)
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“Since I wasn’t consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Adolescent (via ryannapier)
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“It would be strange to demand clarity from people in a time like ours.”
– Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov,” pg. 3 (via imnotorson)