"If only fate had ranted him remorse, scalding remorse, harrowing the heart and driving sleep away, such remorse as tortured men into dreaming of the rope or deep still water! Oh, he would have welcomed it gladly! Tears and suffering-they, after all. are also life."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (via greatrelease)
4th October 2011
Reblogged From greatrelease
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"Two is company, three is none."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (via greatrelease)
"Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?"
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (via hbanana22)
"Yet everyone tries to look more forbidding than he really is, as though afraid it would be an insult to his feelings if they were displayed too soon."
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky , White Nights (via tra-ff-ic)
"Poetry is nonsense and justifies what would be considered imprudence in prose."
— Dostoevsky, “Devils” (via supernovasyntax)
Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
Reader Submission: Title by man of many talents, Mike Molina.
"And to be an enigma was what I was striving for mostly. My whole stupid attitude was maintained for that very purpose."
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A meek one (via tra-ff-ic)
"You are going to perform an act of virtue, and you don’t believe in virtue. That’s what tortures you and makes you angry. That’s why you are so vindictive… Why do you want to go if your sacrifice is of no use to anyone?"
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via greatrelease)
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