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This guy would have loved charles anthony bruno…

“…during this last year I have thoroughly tested the remarkable qualities of clarity and cohesion exhibited by the logical masonry in which my strongly developed, but perfectly normal mind indulged.” yeah ok me too

“it is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on Earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little.”

“that frightful, hoarse undertone of anger and utter condemnation that makes me tremble less today than in my childhood only because the child’s exclusive sense of guilt has been partly replaced by insight into our helplessness, yours and mine.”

-Hey what the fuck?

-“Now she is death; she has her fingers in my chest”

-This guy is just like me if I was different

-“the unfamiliar face that familiar things take on when our heart has taken leave of them”

-“how pettily and fearfully each living creature carries it’s bit of warm blood through the glaciers of cosmic space”

“Why was he staying and accepting it all, all these entanglements and confused emotions? These were experiences, emotions, and states of mind for the sedentary, the lawful, for people in heated rooms. Had he not the right…to extricate himself from these delicate complications and to laugh at them…he was a fool to look for a kind of home here and to be paying for it with so much suffering”

“sink deeply into these dreams, into these many-threaded webs of soul-inhabited senses”

🤨

-“I was looking for solitude, and perhaps the absolute. But I envied the world.”
-“…you can enjoy a fatuous cheerfulness despite the boredom, a funereal fervour”
-“The crows flew low over the steep grassy slopes, hideous, boastful, cruel. I had compared them to our adolescence as they searched for a place in the earth round the school to sink their claws into.”

-“These days, projecting blame is almost an art form.”

To hear and to see
Even an obvious lie
Again
And again and again
May be to say it,
Almost by reflex
Then to defend it
Because we’ve said it
And at last to embrace it
Because we’ve defended it
And because we cannot admit
That we’ve embraced and defended
An obvious lie.

I felt physical joy like a hot ball in my chest when they got out 😭

😠😵‍💫😵‍💫😠😠😠😠🤮🤮🤮🤮

“Forever uniting, growing, dissolving— forever Changing. The universe is God’s self-portrait.”

-“Stumbling across the truth isn’t the same as making things up.”
-“Earthquake today….the ground itself gave a low, grating rumble like buried thunder.”

-“you have mistaken your cowardice for common sense and have found comfort in that, deceiving yourselves”

There should have been a convenient frying pan lying around for Lisa to hit him over the head with mid-speech 🙄

NEED to smoke with this guy…

-“the direct, the inevitable, and the legitimate result of consciousness is to make all action impossible”
-“I should have oozed tears like a sponge.”
-“my jokes are in very bad taste, they are lame and a bit confused, and show a lack of self-confidence too. That is because I have no self respect.” Truly a voice of the people…

😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣

- well that was stressful!!
- “To have those feelings disturbed was painful; but she knew all the same that they were the best part of her inner self and that that part of her was being rapidly smothered by the life she was leading.”

-really enjoyed Mikhailov couldn’t believe what he said about Vronsky’s painting lmaoo
-ch 17-20 with Nikolai 😶
-“it was so necessary for him in his humiliation to possess at least this imaginary height from which he, despised of all, could despise others, that he clung to his sham salvation, as though it were true salvation.”

If Kitty dies Leo dies by my sword

-“these joys were so small that they were quite imperceptible, like grains of gold in sand; but there were also good moments when she saw nothing but joy, nothing but gold.”

Really like all these characters— everyone’s in their own unique mental trenches, and so tangible. Levin is so off-putting and you can just feel he’s been a few steps away from a serious spiritual catastrophe since his first sentence, it’s very compelling I want to mow with him for real.