― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
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I lied I don’t like sex. Put your clothes back on. Let’s discuss Dostoevsky.
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introducing one of my challenges/reading goals for next year (heavily inspired by emmie on youtube)
— after having an extremely mid reading year this year, i'm hoping to focus on quality over quantity in 2024. for me, this means reading a lot of bucket list books. i'm so excited to check off a couple of classic tomes from my tbr!!
i'll also be doing an in-depth analysis or review on my substack, and a highlight on my instagram for live updates (if anyone wants to join me, the schedule is above <3)
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[Except for your eyes, / no blade can control me, / no sharpened knife.]
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lilichka
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Raskolnikov: I know a lot about criminals and the criminal mindset. For example, one of the most frequent things criminals do that makes them get caught is return to the scene of their crime.
Raskolnikov: So obviously, I returned to the scene of the crime.
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Dostoevsky knew a lot, but not everything. For example, he thought that if you kill a person, you will become Raskolnikov. And we now know that you can kill five, ten, a hundred people and go to the theater in the evening.
Anna Akhmatova
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when will my husband return from the war? (I say, while reading through the parts of war and peace that andrei bolkonsky is effectively not in)
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― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit
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Underrated form of intimacy: you listen to me intently as I endlessly rant about crime and punishment to you
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he's an intelligent man but it takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently
- fyodor dostoyevsky
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My boyfriend’s pretty cool, but he’s not as cool as me
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it’s very funny to me that when dostoevsky was coming up with verkhovensky’s character he was all like “i’m going to make a villain. a true demon. this man is pure evil. he represents everything that is wrong with russia. he isn’t capable of love or being loved.” and then created this gay little twink of a man with daddy issues and a toxic crush
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