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Random antisemitic rip awesome

Yes tell me all about how a social safety net is bad for our country i can’t wait!!!

Rly trying to be conscious of my biases but like why do conservative writers spend their whole lives dunking on liberals with like stupid semantics

I actually don’t know if i can stand having a republican prof can we pls just talk abt the Declaration of Independence without having to shit on nancy pelosi like cmon

Ah shit here we go again

“No, at first the knights assert that they deify women (deify, but still look at her as an instrument of enjoyment). Now they assert that they respect woman. Some yield a seat to her, pick up a handkerchief; others acknowledge her right to occupy all posts, to participate in the government, and so on. They do all that, but the view of her is still the same. She is an instrument of enjoyment.” Kreutzer sonata

“The dreadful, terrible act of his dying, he saw, was reduced by all those around him to the level of an accidental unpleasantness, partly an indecency (something like dealing with a man who comes into a drawing room spreading a bad smell), in the name of that very “decency” he had served all his life.” Feel like this is the thesis of Ivan ilyich

“And Caius is indeed mortal, and it’s right that he die, but for me, Vanya, Ivan Ilyich, with all my feelings and thoughts - for me it’s another matter. And it cannot be that I should die. It would be too terrible”

“Eerie, frightening, it seems you’re frightened of death, but then you recollect, you think about life, and you’re frightened of your dying life.” - the diary of a madman. So masterful. Reading abt existential depression when ur on ssris is so funny

Just going all in on Russian lit rn