Arguably one of the funniest ways to begin a novel
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There is something about classic literature that hits different - which is not to say that modern literature lacks depth - there is just something so incredible about reading something and knowing that these same words were consumed by people decades, centuries before you took your first breath. And they loved and felt the stories the way you do& despite all the time separating you you’re still connected…
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I lied I don’t like sex. Put your clothes back on. Let’s discuss Dostoevsky.
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“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from “Notes from the Underground”, published c. april 1864.
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This is 1 of 12 vintage paperback classics that comprise our current giveaw@y.
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ENDURANCE (Medium: Success) : - You are a sick man, Harry.
HALF LIGHT (Easy: Failure) : - You are an *angry* man.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY (Medium: Failure) - You are an unattractive man.
ENDURANCE (Hard: Failure) : - I think your liver is diseased.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground
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Dostoevsky’s manuscripts of Demons and The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
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Which is better—cheap happiness, or lofty suffering?
Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky (P&V Translation)
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[ID: 3 quotes, which each read, 1: “(When I'm all over your mouth, when l'm all over your mouth) / I tried to be good, am I no good? Am I no good? Am I no good?” 2: “JESUS: I'm right here. / JUDAS: I would have never believed that you could have left me. / JESUS: I never left you. / JUDAS: That you didn't love me. / JESUS: I do love you. / JUDAS: Why…didn't you make me good enough…so that you could've loved me?” 3: “They won’t let me…I can’t be good!” End ID.]
Strangers - Ethel Cain | The Last Days of Judas Iscariot - Stephen Adly Guirgis | Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Babe you’re so delusional you belong in a Dostoevsky novel
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“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from “Notes from the Underground”, published c. april 1864.
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