Mentions (43)
"I know I shouldn't expect that everyone of both genders is gonna be reading philosophy or Dostoevsky, but I borderline felt embarrassed to even be in there lol."
"despite their booktok obsession they've never cracked open a Brontë or Dostoevsky lmfao like… how???"
"i imagine prior to the internet the visibility of a life like this was relegated to Morrissey lyrics and Dostoevsky."
"Brother, I'm not depressed and haven't lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter--"
"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."
"While listening to the episode I was noticing how oddly familiar it sounded, he made a comment about Tony Soprano, mentioning a Dostoevsky quote while describing a character."
"we followed each other on goodreads and it was the colleen hoover / kafka dostoyevsky reader dynamic (not to sound insufferable)."
"Every post on this sub sounds like it would be said by the narrator of Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky. Just non stop complaining about other people and the most random possible things amidst whining about your shitty life and how you have have never had friends or dated"
""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. That is why philosophers say it is impossible "
"My aunt said she found him in his rocker with Dostoevsky on his lap, his pipe still smoking, and a hot yerba mate tea on the side table. He had a stroke at 73 and died right there."
"like a Dostoevsky novel or something, you see everything from everyone's perspective -- there's no real good people or bad people, you never know who's gonna die or who's gonna win or whatever"
"Something about the combination of Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Camus and Kierkegaard is usually an indicator. They also tend to really covet books as objects/commodities and have surface level ways of dismissing authors which they've never read (Freud bad, Hemingway misogynist, etc)."
"Imagine you are the guy who created the navy seal copypasta. Everyday you go you to your crappy job at 7-11, just your average broke dude, yet all the time when you turn on the internet you get your work quoted back at you, your stupid blurb being as wide-known as Dostojewski, but it just doesn't ma"
"Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no lo"
"I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly. I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows."
"In "Notes From Underground," Dostoevsky lampooned the defeated dreamers of the liberal class, those who preached goodness but lived in moral squalor. These defeated dreamers denounced the social and cultural depravity they had largely created."
"Dostoevsky was a compulsive gambler. Ozu and Noda measured the progression of their scripts by their Sake bottles and averaged 100 bottles a script. But I suppose extraordinary men have (relatively) ordinary vices."
"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 just bought Crime and Punishment so I can understand my 64 year old Russian boss who is actively committing tax fraud a little bit better culturally. How you feel about Dostoevsky? 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.'"
"I want to eventually read Crime and Punishment but i've been recently recommended Demons. anyone have any thoughts?"
"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. ill tell you, whether you care to listen or not, why i never managed to "
"Ngl it's to hard to go from having long, passionate discussions about your favorite kurosawa film or dostoevsky novel to "so what netflix shows are you watching?" on hinge and bumble dates."
"I wrote an essay on the theologies of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (free ofc)! its alsooo about other stuff, some of u may enjoy! <3"
"It's impossible to imagine Dostoevsky writing The Brothers Karamazov in his 20s because he needed a lifetime of pain, disappointment, thwarted faith, etc."
"I like to write gay little poems. I like reading, Dostoevsky, mccarthy and pynchon right now but i would love to have the correspondence of anyone to make me feel like my favorite things can be shared and not just enjoyed in the dark."
"two of them made it clear that I could start with literature that was short but still not wholly embarrassing and they gifted me some books like *The Best Short Stories of Fydor Dostoevsky*, *Invisible Cities*, and *Dubliners*"
"Not just wicked, no, I never even managed to become anything: neither wicked nor good, neither a scoundrel nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and utterly futile consolation that it is even impossible for an"
"How many times have I – well – taken offence, for example, just like that, deliberately, for no reason at all? And, you know, one always knew that one was taking offence at nothing at all, putting on an act, but one went to such lengths that at last one really and truly felt affronted."
"Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him"
"Anyone here fuck with Dostoyevsky? I'm re-reading The Brothers Karamazov and it's slowly restoring my faith in humanity."
"How you feel about Dostoevsky?"
"I wrote an essay on the theologies of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky"
"It's impossible to imagine Dostoevsky writing The Brothers Karamazov in his 20s because he needed a lifetime of pain, disappointment, thwarted faith, etc."
"I like reading, Dostoevsky, mccarthy and pynchon right now"
"the Russians, interestingly, have always had a strong understanding of this. 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."
"they gifted me some books like *The Best Short Stories of Fydor Dostoevsky*, *Invisible Cities*, and *Dubliners*"
"Dostoyevsky writes some hilarious, unhinged women, frankly it's his strongest suit."
"I started to think that maybe Dostoevsky's philosophy is not applicable to the real world for those people who actually do bad"
"My brother just got a pack of about 6 Dostoevsky books for $35 on Amazon."
"- Fyodor Dostoevsky, *The Brothers Karamazov*"
"Just started The Idiot by Dostoevsky"
"Tartt's answer seems to be, in Dostoevsky fashion, 'There is no such thing as an unpunished sin.'"