my psychiatrist just diagnosed me with 19th century russian literature character
Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27
Text ID: I myself keep my emptiness inside of me, and this certainty that I am alone, that nothing can satisfy me, that my happiness will have to be willed so strongly, so severely that it will be more of a fatigue than a peace.
'I love humanity,' he said, 'but I wonder at myself. The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.'
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
i miss mitya karamazov so fucking much no one threatened suicide like him
Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin
haiku #6, tathev simonyan
Fyodor Dostoevsky //Jean-Paul Sartre
there is something 2 be said about how rodya killed the pawnbroker with the blunt end of the axe. Like hes so extremely repressed that even in that single moment of energy and animalistic violence he was still 'holding back' by not using the sharp blade.
It would have made it more real to him, if he used the sharp end. Thats what mass murderers and slaughterers do, and hes not one of them, hes different.
Wuthering Heights (2011) dir. Andrea Arnold // by georges bataille, literature and evil (1957, tr. Alastair Hamilton) // The glass essay, Anne Carson