Brat Summer Is OVER

Katherine Mansfield, in a letter to Dorothy Brett, dated 14 August 1918

“Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his novels … are what he wanted to have been, and his villains were what he was (or rather, what he found in himself), his cruelty, his attacks of causeless enmity towards those who were helpless and looked to him for comfort, his shrinking from those whom he ought to love… . There were two people in him, he told me: one who feels as he ought to feel and one who feels the opposite. From the one who feels the opposite I make my evil characters, from the one who feels as a man ought to feel, I try to live my life.”

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Letters of Fyodor Dostoevsky to his family and friends

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from "Short Story" in The Collected Poems

there's something about Dostoyevsky characters suddenly bursting into tears that just hits different

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

"ماذا تطوي في قلبك حتى فاض على سيماك؟"

-صلاح عبد الصبور

I Am Not Your Negro, dir. Raoul Peck (2016) (via lunamonchtuna)

I’ll never not sob over these 2 shots.

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth, later, in uglier ways.”

— Sigmund Freud

–Beau Taplin