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Tragedies don’t always arrive unannounced — sometimes we greet them ourselves. Cause or cure? Resignation or pleasure? Freedom disguised as escape — or escape disguised as freedom? There’s a thin line between clarity and ruin, and a dark satisfaction in recognizing the shape of our own undoing.

The Greatest Happiness is to Know the Source of Unhappiness

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White ink on black background of figure seated on the ground in medieval garb, drunk, with an impotent sword in hand.

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Very well put! Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain is a slow motion fever dream. (Very slow motion, very feverish.)

By contrast, Dostoevsky's Idiot or his Brother Karamazovs are also fever dreams, but lightning fast all through those 600 or 900 pages!

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10 most iconic lines by Dostoevsky that make people sit back and overthink life

The interesting people “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.” - A beautiful quote, this one will make people think back about their experiences with people. #iconic #lines #Dostoevsky #people #sit #overthink #life

https://10bmnews.com/2025/05/10-most-iconic-lines-by-dostoevsky-that-make-people-sit-back-and-overthink-life/

"I rejoice greatly that I find there is patience in my soul for quite a long time yet, that I desire no earthly possessions, and need nothing but books, the possibility of writing, and of being daily for a few hours alone."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky in Letters of Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. Ethel Colburn Mayne)

Ohh, is that all?

#books #writing #reading #dostoevsky #solitude

"I rejoice greatly that I find there is patience in my soul for quite a long time yet, that I desire no earthly possessions, and need nothing but books, the possibility of writing, and of being daily for a few hours alone." - Fyodor #Dostoevsky, letter to N. D. Fonvisin, March 1854.

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Sera que Dostoievski tiene razon, ¿ser amable me hace idiota y vulnerable a todo mundo?.
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A new episode of the podcast The Unqualified Opinion is out now.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6TlNAsjNr23eH0EelhGgTq

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bjx2mIenfs

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"The thing about Dostoyevski's characters is that they are *alive*. By which I don't just mean that they're successfully realized or developed or "rounded". The best of them live inside us, forever, once we've met them."

David Foster Wallace, Joseph Frank's Dostoyevski

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I remember many years ago reading *Crime and Punishment*, and thinking that Inspector Porfiry was a lot like #Columbo: he knows who's guilty from the start, and it's a question of eliciting a confession.

TIL: "The character of Columbo was created by the writing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, who said that Columbo was partially inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment character Porfiry Petrovich".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbo

#Columbo #Dostoevsky

Today in Labor History March 31, 1809: Nikolai Gogol, the Russian-Ukrainian novelist, was born. Gogol was one of the first authors to use surrealism and absurdism (see “The Nose,” “The Overcoat,” and “Nevsky Prospekt.”) Many of his works satirized Russian political corruption, like “Dead Souls,” and the “Government Inspector.” He influenced several generations of writers, including Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Nabakov, Kafka and Flannery O’Connor. The gypsy punk band, Gogol Bordello, took their name from him.

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Gogol burning the manuscript of the second part of Dead Souls, by Ilya Repin. Painting shows a man trying to stop Gogol (with thin mustache and demented expression) from burning the manuscript. By Ilya Repin - http://www.art-catalog.ru/picture.php?id_picture=11471, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3636844

You simply just don't "read" Dostoevsky.

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I watched Drive My Car a few nights ago on HBO/Max and most enjoyed how it seamlessly uses so many languages throughout: Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Korean Sign Language, English, and silence.

Using Uncle Vanya to echo the storyline, it's an interesting juxtaposition of theater and film, and how they can relate to life.

Forgiving oneself is critical, because we're all deeply flawed.

#DriveMyCar #HBO #Max #movie #film #theater #UncleVanya #Dostoevsky

Your possessions will turn you into the possessed.

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@bookstodon

"The story focuses on poor people who struggle with their lack of self-esteem. Their misery leads to the loss of their inner freedom, to dependence on the social authorities, and to the extinction of their individuality. Dostoevsky shows how poverty and dependence are indissolubly aligned with deflection and deformation of self-esteem, combining inward and outward suffering."

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#Dostoevsky

The House of the Dead & Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 2019

The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860-2 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the House of The Dead, Notes from the Dead House (or Notes from a Dead House), and Notes from the House of the Dead.

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The book is a loosely-knit collection of facts, events and philosophical discussion organized by "theme" rather than as a continuous story. Dostoevsky himself spent four years in exile in such a camp following his conviction for involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle. This experience allowed him to describe with great authenticity the conditions of prison life and the characters of the convicts.
Poor Folk is an epistolary novel that describes the relationship between the small, elderly official Makar Devushkin and the young seamstress Varvara Dobroselova, remote relatives who write letters to each other. Makar's tender, sentimental adoration for Varvara and her confident, warm friendship for him explain their evident preference for a simple life, although it keeps them in humiliating poverty. An unscrupulous merchant finds the inexperienced girl and hires her as his housewife and guarantor. He sends her to a manor somewhere on a steppe, while Makar alleviates his misery and pain with alcohol.
The story focuses on poor people who struggle with their lack of self-esteem. Their misery leads to the loss of their inner freedom, to dependence on the social authorities, and to the extinction of their individuality. Dostoevsky shows how poverty and dependence are indissolubly aligned with deflection and deformation of self-esteem, combining inward and outerward suffering.

Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to His Family and Friends, 1917

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible.

https://archive.org/details/lettersoffyodorm00dostiala

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"And He will judge and will forgive all, the good and the evil, the wise and the meek…. And when He has done with all of them, then He will summon us. ‘You too come forth,’ He will say, ‘Come forth ye drunkards, come forth, ye weak ones, come forth, ye children of shame!’ And we shall all come forth, without shame and shall stand before him. And He will say unto us, ‘Ye are swine, made in the Image of the Beast and with his mark; but come ye also!’"

#Dostoevsky #CrimeAndPunishment

History has its layers and facts might be damned, but that’s what myths are made of. There are also onions.

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Sunday Morning Reading https://warnercrocker.com/2025/01/19/sunday-morning-reading-86/

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