But you are impatient, you are sick with your impatience, you are not simple enough, you are too subtle, you think too much, you give your brain too much work. You are audacious in words, and faint-hearted when you take up your bow. You are vain, and yet not bold enough.

Courage! wait a bit, study; and if you do not rely on your own powers, then trust to luck: you have fervour, you have feeling. You may reach your goal, and if not, anyway try your luck, you will not lose in any case, for the stake is too great. Trusting to luck, brother, is a great tiling.

– Fyodor Dostoevsky, from “Netochka Nezvanova”

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Just dropped two full reviews over on Fable:

📖 The Brothers Karamazov — messy, philosophical, full of gossip and grace
🐉 The Mabinogion — surreal, unyielding, dreamlike myth before myth made sense

If you're into books that punch through time, hit me up here:
👉 https://fable.co/the-bartender-948823755780?period_type=year

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Finished The Brothers Karamazov while in a crisis center. Not rehab, but close. Six days. Six hundred spirals. One Russian novel.

Final thoughts?

• Smerdyakov is a piece of shit
• Mitya’s chaotic but not hopeless
• Ivan’s smarter but sadder
• Alyosha’s the only one who gets it

It’s messy. And I like mess.

If you like gossip, guilt, tea, theology, murder, daddy issues, and courtroom drama — this book is for you.

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Kolya: “We’ll either become close friends at once, forever… or part as mortal enemies.”

Alyosha: “Even if everyone is like that, do not be like that.”

There’s real moral clarity in that line. Be honest, even if no one else is. Especially then.

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“She is my light, my holy one... Am I worthy of such love?”

Dostoevsky doesn’t just write about love — he unravels it.
Guilt, awe, longing, shame, reverence — all crashing out of one man’s soul.

I have nothing to add except:
I’m still waiting on it.
Such love to find me.

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Fodor #Dostoevsky got it right. Wonder who the chief imbecile is these days? #literature #quote #wisdom

Brand new video for "An Illness" premiered last week by #TrustTheDocUK on #beneaththeradar.

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:-) oh, lucky you. The Brothers Karamazov is another of the truly great novels, I envy you for reading it for the first time.

The urgency! The inevitability! The intenstity!

Mr D sure knew how to grab our attention and pull us into his world, all exit doors closed.

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Our @stephenmbland.bsky.social highlights Semey, Kazakhstan: A city of contrasts, where Dostoevsky's exile shaped literary genius and Soviet nuclear tests left lasting scars timesca.com/exile-and-em... #Semey #Dostoevsky #History #SovietHistory #LiteraryHeritage

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Semey, Kazakhstan: A city of contrasts, where Dostoevsky's exile shaped literary genius and Soviet nuclear tests left lasting scars https://timesca.com/exile-and-empire-dostoevskys-years-in-semey-kazakhstan/ #Semey #Dostoevsky #History #SovietHistory #LiteraryHeritage

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Re-reading The Idiot (Dostoevsky) after 25 years. It's still amazingly good... though I'm having some trouble putting my finger on *why*. Objectively, it's a book about a bunch of aristocrats and social climbers being utter dumbasses, which is hardly a compelling theme. I guess a big part of it is how well and subtly the characters are sketched. And the compassionate way the book follows a neurodivergent person navigating that weird world.
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𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: 𝑵𝒆𝒈𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆: 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆 & 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒈-𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 -

This is getting challenging. What are we to do with the Suffering Child question? And on which form of suffering do I plant my flag of resistance? Dostoevsky and Langston Hughes both offer clues.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/negotiating-for-space-compromise-and-flag-planting/

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Alyosha stood, gazed, and suddenly threw himself down on the earth. He did not know why he embraced it. He could not have told why he longed so irresistibly to kiss it, to kiss it all. But he kissed it weeping, sobbing and watering it with his tears, and vowed passionately to love it, to love it for ever and ever. "Water the earth with the tears of your joy and love those tears," echoed in his soul.

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The white towers and golden domes of the cathedral gleamed out against the sapphire sky. The gorgeous autumn flowers, in the beds round the house, were slumbering till morning. The silence of earth seemed to melt into the silence of the heavens. The mystery of earth was one with the mystery of the stars....

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He did not stop on the steps either, but went quickly down; his soul, overflowing with rapture, yearned for freedom, space, openness. The vault of heaven, full of soft, shining stars, stretched vast and fathomless above him. The Milky Way ran in two pale streams from the zenith to the horizon. The fresh, motionless, still night enfolded the earth.

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«Всегда рядом»
Художник — Андрей Бодько

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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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@grechaw

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!

#ThomasMann #Dostoevsky

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/