“Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
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
oh and that gap in my resume is when i was digging my own grave
James Baldwin.
Franny Choi, from “Catastrophe is Next to Godliness”
“I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Saint Genet
dostoevsky was so funny in the sense that he’ll start a story/novel by saying “and please forgive me if i’ve omitted important details or facts, but if i mention everything with full explanation i would fill a very large volume!” and then describes every little thing, emotion, feeling and thought his characters are having like yes king !! go off the rails !! oh you’re saying 400 pages aren’t enough for your little story?? no worries!! cause we don’t mind reading a 700+ page retelling of a story !! people in their teens and 20 somethings yearn for your writings !!!
snoopy after reading white nights by dostoevsky
have u guys seen the actual unedited bunker pictures