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Passage from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov

This is a powerful passage that—at least for me—hits hard. It occurs in the context of Ivan explaining why he adopts a posture of rebellion. He doesn't take the standard approach to the philosophical problem of evil, which is to deny that an omnipotent, omniscient, and all-loving god exists.… read more

"Because only at night, my noisy longing finds its home. On this keyboard, it is always the only reason why my fingers never tire of dancing."

If I was a man you guys didn't stand a chance with your girls, too bad I also want men.😑😑

Best book draft quote ever🫡 that grammar isn't that tho.

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I started typing out "comma" instead of the character itself.

The Blind Owl

Do you think the curse is true? That everyone who reads this book is destined to inevitably take their own life, as the author did?

Today’s riddle for the souls

I am not a season, yet I make cold days feel warm. I am not the sun, yet I brighten every room I enter. I am not a song, yet people find themselves smiling when I’m near. I ask for nothing, but somehow make others want to give more. I cannot be held in your hands, yet you feel me in every… read more

Daniel Defoe vs. Johnathan Swift

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Wisdom from Dickens

Grateful to have the opportunity to currently be teaching Great Expectations. Along with David Copperfield and Nicholas Nickleby, it has always been a favourite of mine.

Words

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what Keats said: no such thing as the world becoming an easy place to save your soul in

Virginia Woolf

Proust

It’s hard to say something about Nabokov to a person who doesn’t know anything about him. Nabokov is a great writer. Joyce is not as great as Nabokov. Melville compared to Nabokov is a nobody. and Kafka, Beckett and Stein are just little kids compared to Nabokov. In fact, compared to Nabokov, all… read more

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any recommendations?

recently, i've realized i enjoy books with "absurdity" in them. i liked "The Stranger" by Albert Camus and have read "The Trial" by Franz Kafka... but I'm curious if anyone has any other good recommendations with absurd plots like that?

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My most recent purchase— Aesop's Fables

I had read some of these long ago when I was much younger. I don't really remember exactly many of them other than the most notorious "Tortoise and the Hare" that we all know of. I just recall there being alot of different animals in these fables 😄 It's a refreshing book of simplicity for… (edited) read more

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Melting Snow

Be like Melting Snow Wash yourself of yourself..

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Current book

I'm about to finish this second novel I'm reading by Brenda Navarro. Tremendous author, tremendous writing. Highly recommended.

One of many note-taking journals 📖

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New purchase

the fig tree analogy

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor,… read more

Creating A World Never To Be Lived

*Piece from Notes* I would like to implement the use of Occam's Razor in this repeated observation for I question: "Is it not more simple and more reassuring that a time more recent would be more excusable than if we were to arbitrate a time further elapsed?" (Sorry alot of "mores" in that… (edited) read more

Dante ❤️

The best fanfic writer in history.

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I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I fly in the night sky with resonance of the ultimate existential meaning Like a giant bat with quiet black wings that spread to all corners of existence The color of night extends from my wings I fly through the night with my wings I fly through the wings with my night

The soft, tender darkness Envelopes my skin like airy, lukewarm water I stopped breathing As I became the breath Silken warmth overcame my dreams And put them out gently like candle flames I hold my wide smile of gratitude And got on the yolk-yellow lit spaceship Cool dark air wafts… (edited) read more

The Bell Jar

readers, has anyone here read "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath? I bought the book two months ago but haven't managed to read it due to my busy schedule. now that I'm on vacation, I'd like to read it, but i'm not sure. what were your experiences with the book? Is it advisable to read something so… read more

Lectura de hoy

Alfred, Lord Tenysson's dedication to Prince Albert (Idylls of the King)

Now this is how to be memorialized.

My reads 🫶🏻

Who else did it when they read The Feather Pillow? 🪶

Winds of Change

"Peculiar the wind. Gives vestige of life passed, yet delivering grace for new ambition."                                                —Stephen P. I took this photo of a memorable tree I believe a few Octobers ago luckily right before it was unbeknown to me and chopped down… (edited) read more

I finished The Lord of the Rings the other day

Very good. One of the best books I've read (edited)

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This was always one of my favs from Nietzsche.

Now, I certainly do not agree with a fair amount of what Nietzche had to offer in his works, mostly the concern over his spiritual life ( or lack there of). However, one could also suggest that the progressive mix of heavily enabled ideologies that followed Nietzche and this era, could have also… (edited) read more

Doing something I don't often do, if at all

So, im currently doing something on this app I never really do, if at all. What that is- is I am revealing alot of my work in posts made under the "literature" interest/hashtag. I suppose you could kind of relate as a "pilot" into a bigger part of my life with a publishing project ive both been… read more