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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

Alan Moore
“Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the “vox populi” now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.”
Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“When they became wicked, they started to talk about brotherhood and humaneness and understood these ideas. When they became criminals, they invented justice and lay down complete codes of law to maintain it, and to secure these codes they erected a guillotine. They remembered only a tiny bit of what they had lost; they didn’t even want to believe that they had once been innocent and happy. They even laughed at the possibility of this former happiness of theirs and called it a dream.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“[I]n every serious human idea that is conceived in someone’s head, there always remains something that cannot be conveyed to other people, even though whole volumes were written and your idea explained for thirty-five years; there will always remain something that is on no account willing to come out of your skull and will remain with you for ever; so that you will die without perhaps ever having conveyed to anyone the most important part of your idea.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

1160710 Practical Philosophy — 18 members — last activity May 24, 2021 10:33AM
This is a book club for those interested in reading with a practical purpose with a genuine passion for ideas and discussions. I am by no means an ex ...more
206623 Existential Book Club — 1531 members — last activity 3 hours, 53 min ago
This a book club for anybody interested in reading existentialist literature and fiction. Every month I'll be putting up a new text either by an exist ...more
137714 Political Philosophy and Ethics — 6448 members — last activity 8 hours, 1 min ago
Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more
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