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"Every woman I know I can go and ask her what she's currently reading. maybe 10% of the men I know are reading anything and if they are it's either self help, some cringy fantasy shit, or the brothers Karamazov"
"In chapter 6, Zosima says to Ivan: But the martyr likes sometimes to divert himself with his despair, as it were driven to it by despair itself. Meanwhile, in your despair, you, too, divert yourself with magazine articles, and discussions in society, though you don't believe your own arguments, and "
"if you want to LARP as a slav or slav-adjacent ethnic intellectual, playing chess and reading the brothers karamazov is not enough. you need to sit down and study math."
"I've been reading a lot. Finished up As I Lay Dying a couple days ago, powered through The Great Gatsby Saturday afternoon/evening, and am just getting into The Brothers Karamazov, which I've started a handful of times but never managed to stick with."
""Much on earth is concealed from us, but in place of it we have been granted a secret, mysterious sense of our living bond with the other world, with the higher heavenly world, and the roots of our thoughts and feelings are not here but in other worlds." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov"
"For example, I recently had a chat with someone about *The Brothers Karamazov,* which I read a couple of years ago, in which I realized I could not remember anyone's name except Alyosha, let alone discuss the plot. This is despite sitting down for an hour or so every evening to read the damn thing."
"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."
"I thought about starting with Brothers Karamazov but figured I'd stick to the best known first."
"From book 6 when the stranger comes to confess to the Elder Zossima: 'Why, the isolation that prevails everywhere, above all in our age-it has not fully developed, it has not reached its limit yet. For every one strives to keep his individuality as apart as possible, wishes to secure the greatest po"
"I started The Brothers Karamazov today and was SO into it. And there's everyone saying it's so good"
"Trying to read Brothers Karamazov but I can't get thru book 8 and I've been trying for like 2 months but I just feel so bad for Mitya. It physically pains me to pick up this book."
"It's impossible to imagine Dostoevsky writing The Brothers Karamazov in his 20s because he needed a lifetime of pain, disappointment, thwarted faith, etc."
"Brothers Karamazov (K2019-12)"
"For example, I recently had a chat with someone about *The Brothers Karamazov,* which I read a couple of years ago, in which I realized I could not remember anyone's name except Alyosha, let alone discuss the plot."
"I'm re-reading The Brothers Karamazov and it's slowly restoring my faith in humanity."
"I am currently reading Karamazov and the Father Zosima chapters make me envious."
"From book 6 when the stranger comes to confess to the Elder Zossima: Why, the isolation that prevails everywhere, above all in our age-it has not fully developed, it has not reached its limit yet. For every one strives to keep his individuality as apart as possible"
"It's impossible to imagine Dostoevsky writing The Brothers Karamazov in his 20s because he needed a lifetime of pain, disappointment, thwarted faith, etc."
"Dostoevsky himself, as written in Crime and Punishment and Brothers K, tells us how suffering is as vital to the human condition as the senses."
"Grushenka, Lisa, Katia, the Khokhlova lady... Dostoyevsky writes some hilarious, unhinged women, frankly it's his strongest suit."
"I accept the torment of accusation and of my disgrace before all people, I want to suffer and be purified by suffering! And perhaps I will be purified, eh, gentlemen?"