Anne De Marcken, From It Lasts Forever And Then It's Over [ID'd]

Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don't find yourself.

— Franz Kafka, Diaries 1914-1923

"ماذا تطوي في قلبك حتى فاض على سيماك؟"

-صلاح عبد الصبور

my psychiatrist just diagnosed me with 19th century russian literature character

Anaïs Nin, from a novel titled "A Spy in the House of Love," published in 1954

It's ridiculous how invested I am in this book after what's basically five chapters of exposition. How does Dostoevsky write like this. The ideas and characters introduced are just so interesting that I don't even care that these people haven't even talked yet. I am RIVETED

obsessed with her vibe

Fyodor Dostoevsky //Jean-Paul Sartre

Thinking about how when I started The Brothers Karamazov and had only read the first couple chapters so I wasn’t in deep enough yet I was like “ok, finally a Dostoevsky book I can be pretty normal about!” And here we are now. It’s pretty much my entire personality and I’m so obnoxious about it

the urge to ignore your assigned summer readings in favour of starting yet another Dostoevsky book that will ruin your life