"in despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position"
- Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Man likes to make roads and to create. But why has he such a passionate love for destruction and chaos also?"
- Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once."
- Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Does not man, perhaps, love something besides well-being? Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering. Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being."
- Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"I have frequently thought that I must have been intended by nature to be fond of low company, I am so little at my ease among strangers of gentility!"
- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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"I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness."
- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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"You are very right in supposing how my money would be spent—some of it, at least—my loose cash would certainly be employed in improving my collection of music and books."
- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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"Everybody dreams, but there are few who place any importance to the phenomena of sleep."
- Yacki Raizizun, The Secret of Dreams
So It's the first time we post a link to an audiobook on our self-help and personal growth audiobook channel on YouTube (AV EvolveEpic) but we have a new upload for everyone to enjoy. "The Secret of Dreams" by Yacki Raizizun is a seminal work in the realm of the occult, providing a profound exploration of the mysterious separation of body and soul that occurs during sleep. Authored by an Indian-born American naturopath, Raizizun's book transcends conventional boundaries to unravel the nature of dreams and their intricate influence on the human psyche. A short listen (under 30 min.) that's sure to broaden your perspective and hone your intuition.
Massive Thanks to everyone who's followed the blog so far! 👋
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"Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?"
- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Valentine's Day Special audiobook is up on YouTube for those in the mood for some sweet sweet reluctance and then romance 💕
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"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone."
- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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"I do nothing but dream every day that at last I shall meet some one. Oh, if only you knew how often I have been in love in that way…"
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
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"I have lived, as they say, keeping myself to myself, that is, utterly alone—alone, entirely alone. Do you know what it means to be alone?"
- White Nights, Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A short fiction about young love in the countryside that portrays love's debilitating effects. A great listen with a dramatic twist 🫢. Based on a true story from the author's youth.
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From lips indifferent of her death I heard, Indifferently I listened to it, too,
- First Love, by Ivan Turgenev
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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another
First Love
by Ivan Turgenev
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What the Birds Teach Us
by J. R. Eastwood
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“It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.”
― Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
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