Dostoyevsky: Archive

“Suddenly and unexpectedly a bitter hatred for Sonya seemed to flood his heart. Surprised and almost terrified by this feeling, he lifted his head and gazed at her, meeting her eyes fixed on him with a look of anxiety and anguished care. There was love in that look; his hatred vanished like a shadow.” —

Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky (Coulson translation)

Jun 25, 201147 notes

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“As a craftsman, as well as his insight into people, his capacity for compassion, he was one of the ones that any writer wants to match.” —Faulkner on Dostoyevsky

Jun 24, 201126 notes

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Maybe it's been told by now but I'll just leave it here that "Insanciklar" is the Turkish translation of Poor Folk. I had the very same edition of the book pictured there, then lent it to a friend and it never came back. Pity.

Thanks! And you should go after that friend, give up on your dreams, but never give up on your books.

“In Dostoevsky there were things believable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them.” —Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via lesmotsjustes)

Jun 17, 201148 notes

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“Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve? You smile at the extravagance of your dream, and yet you feel that this tissue of absurdity contained some real idea, something that belongs to your true life – something that exists, and has always existed, in your heart. You search your dream for some prophecy that you were expecting. It has left a deep impression upon you, joyful or cruel, but what it means, or what has been predicted to you in it, you can neither understand nor remember.” —F.M. Dostoyevsky (The Idiot)

Jun 13, 2011512 notes

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“Fear was taking hold of him more and more, especially after this second, quite unexpected murder.” —Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment (1866)

Jun 12, 201117 notes

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“I always imagined that you would take me to some place where there was a huge, wicked spider as big as a man and we would spend the rest of our lives looking at it and being afraid of it…that’s what out love would be wasted on.” —Dostoevsky, The Devils (via graztifarian)

Jun 11, 201129 notes

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“This is a fantastic, gloomy business, a modern case, an incident of our time, when the heart of man is troubled, when the phrase is quoted that blood ‘renews,’ when comfort is preached as the aim of life. Here we have bookish dreams, a heart unhinged by theories.” —“Crime & Punishment”, Fyodor Dostoevsky (via ndeming)

Jun 11, 201123 notes

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“And was it in any way permissible for him, Razumikhin, to cherish any such dream? What was he in comparison with this girl – he, the drunken scoundrel and braggart of yesterday? ‘Is such a ridiculous and cynical comparison possible at all?’ He crimsoned at the thought.” —

Razumikhin, from Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

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“Writing will be a sort of work. They say work makes man kind-hearted and honest. Well, here is a chance for me, anyway” —Fyodor Dostoevsky ‘Notes From the Underground.’ (via camdenreece)

“He’s an intelligent man, but it takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.” —Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (via that-damned-elusive-pimpernel)

Jun 02, 2011249 notes

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“Is there such despair in the world as could overcome this wild and perhaps indecent thirst for life in me?” —Dostoevsky (via collegenihilist)

Jun 01, 201165 notes

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“In life, sheer hosanna is not enough, for things must be tested in the crucible of doubt.” —Dostoevsky (via yingpow)

Jun 01, 201141 notes

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Dostoyevsky

June 2011

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