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October 04, 2011
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"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)

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September 29, 2011
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"Two is company, three is none."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (via greatrelease)

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September 26, 2011
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"Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?"

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (via hbanana22)

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September 18, 2011
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"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)

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September 10, 2011
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"Poetry is nonsense and justifies what would be considered imprudence in prose."

— Dostoevsky, “Devils” (via supernovasyntax)

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September 10, 2011
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betterbooktitles: Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov Reader Submission: Title by man of many talents, Mike Molina.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov

Reader Submission: Title by man of many talents, Mike Molina.

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September 03, 2011
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"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)

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September 03, 2011
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"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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September 02, 2011
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