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officially obsessed with this book 😭 bc wdym there’s
- the narrator’s wife being a diva with no lines
- CASUAL 6 7 DROP ?
- “overweening lust for battle” and it’s the boys wanting to play chess all day
- mcconnor and his weirdly replenishable bank account with money to spend only on playing chess matches
- HITLER APPEARS
- thinking dr b was the aforementioned hitler for a little while
- and.. more 😭

“tolstoy stresses there his belief that even married couples should try to live together like brother and sister” ... STOP IT. GET SOME HELP.

“tolstoy stresses there his belief that even married couples should try to live together like brother and sister”

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“tolstoy stresses there his belief that even married couples should try to live together like brother and sister”

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“tolstoy stresses there his belief that even married couples should try to live together like brother and sister”

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“like anna karenina, masha might have drifted into adultery with the sexy italian” THIS IS FRYING MEEEEE

“whether he is better or worse off there where he awoke after his death, whether he was disappointed or found there what he expected, we shall all soon learn.” TOUGH AS HELLLLLL 4.5 aura points

“having done this, he hurriedly undid his girdle, opened out his fur coat, and having pushed nikita down, lay down on top of him” NOW IS NOT THE TIME VASILI ANDREEVICH

MUKHORTY YOU ARE A DIVA HORSE I LOVE YOU .. GO BACK TO NIKITA KING!!!!! RIDE HIGH!!!!!

“for he felt as tired as a horse when it stops and refuses to go further in spite of the whip, and its master sees that it must be fed before it can work again.” I GET IT NOW STOP NIKITA IS THE MASTER THIS DIVAAAAAAA TOUGH ASF

“and though the wind smoked more or the cigarette than he did” icl that’s tough as hell

“”the young people are getting out of hand”” amen to this old man

“nikita, the only one of vasili andreevich’s labourers who was not drunk that day, ran to harness the horse.” THIS DIVA

idk whether i’m with him or against him 😭😭 thanks tolstoy 😭😭 5 stars

“‘wait,’ i said to her sister, ‘it is silly without boots, let me at least put on slippers.’” WHAT IS WITH THIS GUY AND SOCKS AND SHOES I’M SOBBINGGGG

“probably it is always done, when a husband has killed his wife, as i had—he must certainly go to her.” 💀💀

“i wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one’s wife’s lover in one’s socks; and i did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.” this guy i swear 😭😭😭

"with moist almond-shaped eyes, red smiling lips, a small waxed moustache, hair done in the latest fashion, and an insipidly pretty face" pozdnyshev i KNOW what you are...

if ever i am unsure of something i will now devise to "consult the wizards" at every possible opportunity

"yes, i was a dreadful pig and imagined myself to be an angel." you and all of us buddy 😭

“there is hardly one who has not already been married ten, a hundred, or even, like don juan, a thousand times, before his wedding.“ would you say then that we’re past… the point of no return? (oh brother…)

“i thought i was a charming fellow and quite a moral man.” this is how it always starts: men having confidence.

“”what is wrong with education?”” i ask myself this every day lady…

“then he grew quiet, and not only ceased weeping but even held his breath and became all attention. it was as though he were listening not to an audible voice but the voice of his soul, to the current of thoughts arising within him.” oh wow so this is really just how it is huh.. ivan ilych you are one of the girls

“sometimes she felt like saying: would you miss me, if you didn’t have me anymore? she had asked him that once on the ghost estate, when they were just kids. he had said yes then, but she’d been the only thing in his life at that time, the only thing he had to himself, and it would never be that way again.” OH BUT HIM SAYING EARLIER HE HAS A PART OF HER INSIDE HIM OUHHH NOOO