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"Where's like, Hawthorne, Shakespeare, Ellison, Bronte, Dostoevsky, Steinbeck, Hemingway, or w/e?"
"Along with the TRAD WESTERN RETVRN 'classical education' guys who force themselves to read 5 pages of dostoievsky every week and think about 'reading the classics' as some form of aesthetic (kinda similar to the fckin dark academia teenagers) or, again, self-improover bullshit without a single drop "
"I went on several dates with this guy a year ago who was really kind and very emotionally stable and was very intelligent and educated; but somehow—even though he could talk at length about Dante's Divine Comedy and different interpretations of the Pauline epistles and Dostoevsky and all kinds of ma"
"Do you ask why I tortured and tormented myself? The answer is that it was too boring to sit and do nothing, and so I indulged my fancy"
"Dostoevsky was a compulsive gambler."
"I am currently reading Karamazov and the Father Zosima chapters make me envious. Like I am missing something. The sense of rapture and love Dostoevsky describes sound amazing."
"what the fuck is up w this dude, hes so sick. hes like i wanna be a bug, im a vengeful mouse. like all of his writing has the weight of a clearly very talented man however it has the emotional weight of a 14 year old on tumblr."
"A man lives calmly and peacefully. His fate is a hard one, but he puts up with it. Suddenly he finds something give way within him; what he has hitherto suffered he can bear no longer, and he plunges his knife into the breast of his oppressor or his enemy."