Simone De Beauvoir, From Diary Of A Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27

snoopy after reading white nights by dostoevsky

She’s a ten but she threw 100,000 rubles in the fire and dared her fiancé to pull them out, abandoned another fiancé at the altar, and wreaks chaos wherever she goes, so she’s a twelve.

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself, 1856

“You may think: What’s happened? Good God, are they kidding? But it is a rule of life, alas, that nobody is kidding.”

— Andrew Sean Greer, Less Is Lost

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

- Kazuo Ishiguro - The Paris Review Interview: The Art of Fiction.

"There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship."

–Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

Can someone draw Kafka like this plsss

Denise Levertov, from This Great Unknowning: Last Poems; “Feet”

“We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality