Dostoevsky Was So Funny In The Sense That He’ll Start A Story/novel By Saying “and Please Forgive

I am not meant for casual. I was born for soul crushing devotion.

–Beau Taplin

Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Fellini’s Casanova (1976)

Thinking about how when I started The Brothers Karamazov and had only read the first couple chapters so I wasn’t in deep enough yet I was like “ok, finally a Dostoevsky book I can be pretty normal about!” And here we are now. It’s pretty much my entire personality and I’m so obnoxious about it

my psychiatrist just diagnosed me with 19th century russian literature character

hey sorry your boyfriend said that russian classics are about that life is bleak. yeah he meant dostoyevsky and tolstoy. no, he didn't look beyond any of the lowest lows of the stories. he didn't even see the overarching themes of beauty and hope and connection. frankly we have all been laughing about him and we're gonna beat him up now. sorry

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.

as soon as you feel the summer melancholy creep in on you and your brain is telling you to rot in bed BITCH NO you just need to swim in a lake and dry in the sun

“I always think it’s a good sign when a man likes cats. It shows he doesn’t feel the need to be in constant control of things.”

— Anne Tyler, Clock Dance