“We Are Reduced To Asking Others What We Are. We Never Dare To Ask Ourselves.”

"There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship."

–Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

hey sorry your boyfriend said that russian classics are about that life is bleak. yeah he meant dostoyevsky and tolstoy. no, he didn't look beyond any of the lowest lows of the stories. he didn't even see the overarching themes of beauty and hope and connection. frankly we have all been laughing about him and we're gonna beat him up now. sorry

supernatural is about watching sam winchester fall down again and again and he just keeps getting up but not in an inspiring way just in a way that makes you kind of sad and nauseous.

Fellini’s Casanova (1976)

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

— Vincent van Gogh

'I love humanity,' he said, 'but I wonder at myself. The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.'

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

“You may think: What’s happened? Good God, are they kidding? But it is a rule of life, alas, that nobody is kidding.”

— Andrew Sean Greer, Less Is Lost