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"very notes from the underground crime and punishmentyyyy so far though without any crimes.....so far" — Feb 20, 2026 12:09PM
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“Order for order's sake castrates man of his essential power, which is to transform both the world and himself. Life creates order, but order does not create life.”
― Letter to a Hostage
― Letter to a Hostage
“Read the best writers from all different periods; keep your reading of contemporaries in proportion - you do not want a steady diet of contemporary literature. You already belong to your time.”
― Essays One
― Essays One
“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”
― Conversations with James Baldwin
― Conversations with James Baldwin
“I exist.’ In thousands of agonies — I exist. I’m tormented on the rack — but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar — I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“The essential, as usual, is imponderable. The essential, so it seems, was but a smile. But often the essential is indeed a smile. One is paid by a smile, repaid by a smile, quickened by a smile.”
― Letter to a Hostage
― Letter to a Hostage
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