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reading anna karenina for the sole purpose of living vicariously through the life of a socially awkward lovelorn farmer

“Where’s Levin?!” I cry as I continually forget that the main character of Anna Karenina is in fact Anna Karenina.

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Dostoevsky as troubled birds

Raskolnikov:

Dmitri Karamazov:

Ivan Karamazov:

Alyosha Karamazov:

Myshkin:

Nastasya Filippovna:

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“theatrics over pragmatism always” is the true and only theme, starring both edmond dantes and albert de morcerf

*opens my mouth* *taps the mic with my teeth* *clears throat* “revenge is bad” is absolutely not a theme in the count of monte cristo (1844)

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in what order do you think it’s best to read dostoyevsky’s novels?

hey so this is a question i get asked quite often, so you know what? i made yall a handy chart

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best of sparknotes part 3

(2 | 1)

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Kolya Krassotkin is anti-vax

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modern day danglars would have his bank account suspended bc of a mcchicken

I mean, it’s one banana, Danglars. What could it cost, your entire bank account?

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alexander the great was a slut Prove Me Wrong

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edmond dantés: *convinces héloïse to poison the whole family, reminds villefort of the murder of his bastard son in front of dinner guests, is responsible for said bastard son exposing him in front of all of Paris*

gérard de villefort:

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i am hyperventilating. i am never going to breath again. goodbye

Hi my name is Raskolnikov Dark'ness Dementia Raven Romanovich  and I have messy dark blond hair (its like almost brown but not) with lighter blond streaks and dark brown eyes like the trash apartment I live in and a lot of people tell me I look like my sister Dunya (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Napoleon but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a superior human who lives above the law but the local authority doesn’t understand me. I have pale sickly skin. I’m nihilistic (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly rags. I love the garbage and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a filthy undershirt with a matching coat around it and torn dirty pants, bloody socks and shoes with holes in them. I wasn’t wearing any makeup because I am naturally perfect. I was walking outside St. Petersburg. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. Porfiry was staring at me. I put up my middle finger at him.

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“And I have also a deep conviction that Heaven would not have created two hearts as harmonizing as ours do, and united us to each other almost miraculously, at last to separate us”

— The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

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“Fortunately,he had learned to wait; he had waited fourteen years for his liberty, and now that he was free he could wait at least six months or a year for wealth.”

— The count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

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“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”

— Euripides, Herakles  (via alunaes)

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⚠ Edmond Dantes

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Could you rant about Mrs. Villefort?

ohohohohohohh

my favourite Poisonous Lady.

I love Héloïse?? like more as a character than as a person of course but

she’s just such a fascinating character omg she’s just???

so well written?? 

(like all of the women in this book really) 

I just. love her so much.

and even though she actually kills many people ((somehow she’s the character who murders the most people)) her ending was so terrible and oh God 

the final scene.

the final scene. the confrontation between her and Villefort.

ohgodohgodohgod ohgod it makes my hair stand on end every. single. time. 

I don’t even know what to think of her because yeah she’s terrible but she didn’t kill those people out of sheer malevolence (I think she actually cared about Valentine and still tried to poison her) she just?? did it for her son?? so that he could inherit something??

and honestly her killing her son because “a good mother doesn’t go anywhere without her child” is,,, azgdzfz

gosh it kills me.

and Edouard was actually pretty fucking smart!!! annoying but smart!!!

It’s just. oh Héloïse.

anyways I literally love all the women in this book and I’d lay down my life for each and every one of them – except La Carconte.