the line “your worst sin is that you’ve betrayed and destroyed yourself for nothing” is so raw you’d think it’s from a destiel fanfic or even hetalia but it’s actually from dostoyevskys crime and punishment
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Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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if i’m going to live with Raskolnikov-level ennui, paranoia, and indecision, i could at least have a best friend who’d beat up his relative defending me for a crime i absolutely committed.
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love seeing tumblr's take on crime and punishment it's so predictable. every drawing of raskolnikov is a tortured emo anime boy. his morose sickly nature, manic-depressive tendencies, and highly problematic actions make him the world's most perfect poor little meow meow. and then there's gayboy 'i can fix him' razumikhin homoerotically feeding raskolnikov soup. to be clear none of this is a criticism keep it up
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The crucifixion didn’t put an end to suffering; what it meant is that God entered into suffering. He is a God of wounds.
“No one escapes this life unmarked by suffering. We are broken people who live on a broken planet, and grief is part of the price we pay,” the author Philip Yancey has written. Last year I asked Philip, a follower of Jesus, why he thought God allows suffering, especially for the young and the innocent. He told me, “I don’t know why God allows for suffering. All I know is that God is on the side of the sufferer.”
I don’t believe there’s a satisfactory answer to the questions posed by Ivan, and Dostoyevsky, to his credit, doesn’t try to provide one. The problem of evil, for him, has no cut-and-dry solution. The Brothers Karamazov doesn’t give us a solution to suffering but a different way to look at it, and a way of life we can choose to take in response: active, incarnational love. A kiss is all we have for now. But a kiss is enough for now.
Peter Wehner, "Why Does God Allow the Innocent to Suffer?"
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Overall he's just pure INTJ material 👀 [crime and punishment, fyodor dostoyevsky]
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Razumikhin: slayyy
Raskolnikov: how on earth did you know???
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“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov”
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