"The darker the night, the brighter the stars; The deeper the grief, the closer to God!"
— A. MAYKOV, often attributed to F. Dostoevski
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Goethe was afraid the modern world might turn into a hospital. Every citizen unwell. … when culture fails to deal with the feeling of emptiness and the panic to which man is disposed, other agents come forward to put us together with therapy, with glue, or slogans, or spit, or as that fellow Gumbein the art critic says, poor wretches are recycled on the couch. This view is even more pessimistic than the one held by Dostoevski's Grand Inquisitor who said: mankind is frail, needs bread, cannot bear freedom but requires miracle, mystery, and authority. A natural disposition to feelings of emptiness and panic is worse than that. Much worse. What it really means is that we human beings are insane.
— Saul Bellow, from Humboldt’s Gift
pg. 175.
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Le preguntaría a Dostoevski por Nástenka, o a Sabato por María Iribarne, o a Bradbury por Clarisse, pero comparten un paradero inaccesible para mí ¿Por qué Sofía? ¿Qué pasa antes y después de ella? ¿Alguna vez dejará de existir, de estar presente como una nostalgia de un pasado no vivido?
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dostoyevsky kinda ate with “your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
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Capodoperele literaturii universale în viziunea lui Dostoievski
Dostoievski este unul dintre scriitorii care nu mai au nevoie de o introducere. Operele sale au fost și continuă să fie citite pe tot mapamondul, printre autorii care i-au apreciat opera se numără nume ca Virginia Woolf, Albert Camus sau Friedrich Nietzsche. Mai jos prezint pe scurt o parte dintre cărțile sale preferate,să aflăm împreună ce opere l-au marcat pe creatorul lui Raskolnikov și Ivan…
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― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
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What if Jesus and Dostoevsky were something more than oomfs…
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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk (translated by C. J. Hogarth)
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my psychiatrist just diagnosed me with 19th century russian literature character
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Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter to Anna Gregorevna Dostoevskaya wr. c. May 1880
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what bsd characters childhood looked like
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