Dostoevsky is one of those writers who, after showing you your fragmental vileness and natural disfigurement, teach you why you need to learn to love yourself.
Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Nearer the Moon: The Previously Unpublished Unexpurgated Diary, 1937-1939
brat summer is OVER
time for DEAD POETS SOCIETY AUTUMN
“Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
have u guys seen the actual unedited bunker pictures
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Edna St. Vincent Millay, from "Short Story" in The Collected Poems
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.
Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Edward Sackville-West written c. September 1926
my psychiatrist just diagnosed me with 19th century russian literature character