“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?
October 30, 2026 at 8:20 PM
“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?
RIP Dostoyevsky you would have loved this series of Celebrity Traitors
October 29, 2026 at 10:36 PM
RIP Dostoyevsky you would have loved this series of Celebrity Traitors
Just after Dostoyevsky was narrowly spared death by a firing squad, he wrote his brother this extraordinary letter about the meaning of life www.themarginalian.org/2019/12/05/d...
Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life
“To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its ta…
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November 2, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Just after Dostoyevsky was narrowly spared death by a firing squad, he wrote his brother this extraordinary letter about the meaning of life www.themarginalian.org/2019/12/05/d...
“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?
October 27, 2026 at 8:20 AM
“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?
Today I found out that Dostoyevsky has Ukrainian ancestry!
His great grand father was even a Ukr Greek Catholic Uniate priest & his grandfather was Uniate too but due to social pressures converted to Orthodoxy.
His great grand father was even a Ukr Greek Catholic Uniate priest & his grandfather was Uniate too but due to social pressures converted to Orthodoxy.
November 1, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Today I found out that Dostoyevsky has Ukrainian ancestry!
His great grand father was even a Ukr Greek Catholic Uniate priest & his grandfather was Uniate too but due to social pressures converted to Orthodoxy.
His great grand father was even a Ukr Greek Catholic Uniate priest & his grandfather was Uniate too but due to social pressures converted to Orthodoxy.
𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐝: earl grey tea, ballet flats, french tip nails, detective stories, the scent of vanilla and cinnamon, dostoyevsky, playing chess, chocolate croissants, going to the theatre, crimson sunsets, noir films, listening to music on vinyl ⊹ ࣪ ˖ 🦢˚
November 1, 2026 at 1:11 PM
𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐝: earl grey tea, ballet flats, french tip nails, detective stories, the scent of vanilla and cinnamon, dostoyevsky, playing chess, chocolate croissants, going to the theatre, crimson sunsets, noir films, listening to music on vinyl ⊹ ࣪ ˖ 🦢˚
Por favor díganme que no soy la única a la que le pasa
🖋️Comenta qué libro de Dostoyevsky has leído y sígueme para seguir hablando de literatura
🖋️Comenta qué libro de Dostoyevsky has leído y sígueme para seguir hablando de literatura
November 1, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Por favor díganme que no soy la única a la que le pasa
🖋️Comenta qué libro de Dostoyevsky has leído y sígueme para seguir hablando de literatura
🖋️Comenta qué libro de Dostoyevsky has leído y sígueme para seguir hablando de literatura
November 3, 2026 at 2:12 AM
#LitHodgepodge 29
Tiferet: Evolves from Dostoyevsky->Nietzsche+Rumi->Emerson+Rumi. After several neglectful/abusive relationships, it takes her a LONG time to develop a healthier understanding of love.
Casimir: Aristotle+Shakespeare. His has always been a communal drive, in all forms.
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Tiferet: Evolves from Dostoyevsky->Nietzsche+Rumi->Emerson+Rumi. After several neglectful/abusive relationships, it takes her a LONG time to develop a healthier understanding of love.
Casimir: Aristotle+Shakespeare. His has always been a communal drive, in all forms.
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#LitHodgepodge 29
Many great writers & philosophers have tried to pinpoint the nature of love. It doesn’t have to be romantic love either—Aristotle’s ideas, for example, were about friendship.
Which (simplified) philosophy would resonate most with your OC? Why?
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Many great writers & philosophers have tried to pinpoint the nature of love. It doesn’t have to be romantic love either—Aristotle’s ideas, for example, were about friendship.
Which (simplified) philosophy would resonate most with your OC? Why?
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An October Prompt Game of Miscellaneous Proportions
THURSDAY THRIFTED THERAPY
[Graphic of an old-timey bearded man sitting and leaning his arm against a barrel with a tiny frog crawling up its side]
Prompt:
29 | Which of these famous thinkers’ philosophies on love would speak to your character most? Why?
Love is…
Aristotle: One soul residing in two bodies.
Freud: Desire in disguise.
Buddha: Letting go.
Emerson: Transformative, when given all.
Nietzsche: The drive to possess another.
Dostoevsky: Suffering.
Shakespeare: An ever-fixed mark.
Schopenhauer: A trick of nature.
Marx: A luxury the poor cannot afford.
Rumi: The fire that burns everything false.
[Graphic of a talking crow]
Philosophers, writers, and artists have mused on the nature of love since... well, forever, it seems. Me, I’ve always rather liked Blaise Pascal’s quote: “The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.” But what do I know—I’m just a crow.
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October 29, 2026 at 12:14 PM
#LitHodgepodge 29
Tiferet: Evolves from Dostoyevsky->Nietzsche+Rumi->Emerson+Rumi. After several neglectful/abusive relationships, it takes her a LONG time to develop a healthier understanding of love.
Casimir: Aristotle+Shakespeare. His has always been a communal drive, in all forms.
🧵
Tiferet: Evolves from Dostoyevsky->Nietzsche+Rumi->Emerson+Rumi. After several neglectful/abusive relationships, it takes her a LONG time to develop a healthier understanding of love.
Casimir: Aristotle+Shakespeare. His has always been a communal drive, in all forms.
🧵
Withnail & I's another one.
Absolute fucking garbage from start to finish.
Loved by the same people who've got an unread copy of War & Peace & various works by Dostoyevsky on permanent & very prominent display in their living rooms.
Twats, one & all.
Absolute fucking garbage from start to finish.
Loved by the same people who've got an unread copy of War & Peace & various works by Dostoyevsky on permanent & very prominent display in their living rooms.
Twats, one & all.
October 30, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Withnail & I's another one.
Absolute fucking garbage from start to finish.
Loved by the same people who've got an unread copy of War & Peace & various works by Dostoyevsky on permanent & very prominent display in their living rooms.
Twats, one & all.
Absolute fucking garbage from start to finish.
Loved by the same people who've got an unread copy of War & Peace & various works by Dostoyevsky on permanent & very prominent display in their living rooms.
Twats, one & all.
Free book at Project Gutenberg: Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/600
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.
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October 28, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Free book at Project Gutenberg: Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/600
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - “Humanity will find in itself the power to live for virtue even without believing in immortality. It will find it in love for freedom, for equality, for fraternity. #QuoteBot
October 31, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - “Humanity will find in itself the power to live for virtue even without believing in immortality. It will find it in love for freedom, for equality, for fraternity. #QuoteBot
Free book at Project Gutenberg: The possessed : or, The devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8117
The possessed : or, The devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The possessed : or, The devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.
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October 31, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Free book at Project Gutenberg: The possessed : or, The devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8117
He mentions washing dishes
Cooking dinner
Sharing his day with her
And complimenting her brillance.
He properly used comments and Dostoyevsky….
Long as he don’t do no mean shit? She might actually fight a woman for him
Cooking dinner
Sharing his day with her
And complimenting her brillance.
He properly used comments and Dostoyevsky….
Long as he don’t do no mean shit? She might actually fight a woman for him
“think of yourself as an oasis of simplicity in her complicated life”
October 28, 2026 at 12:14 AM
He mentions washing dishes
Cooking dinner
Sharing his day with her
And complimenting her brillance.
He properly used comments and Dostoyevsky….
Long as he don’t do no mean shit? She might actually fight a woman for him
Cooking dinner
Sharing his day with her
And complimenting her brillance.
He properly used comments and Dostoyevsky….
Long as he don’t do no mean shit? She might actually fight a woman for him
"The price of loving someone very much is never loving anyone again." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
November 2, 2026 at 11:18 PM
"The price of loving someone very much is never loving anyone again." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The russian barbarians will not erasing Ukrainian language and identity by burning warehouses. But they force people to put a cross on their Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, et al.
October 28, 2026 at 2:37 PM
The russian barbarians will not erasing Ukrainian language and identity by burning warehouses. But they force people to put a cross on their Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, et al.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - “Everything passes, only truth remains. #QuoteBot
October 30, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - “Everything passes, only truth remains. #QuoteBot
“We are living in a fake world. But we find reality in this fake world.” —Haruki Murakami buff.ly/CcBy5xo
Haruki Murakami, The Art of Fiction No. 182
“Even now, my ideal for writing fiction is to put Dostoyevsky and Chandler together in one book.”
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October 29, 2026 at 2:02 PM
“We are living in a fake world. But we find reality in this fake world.” —Haruki Murakami buff.ly/CcBy5xo
pevear and volokhonsky did a great job w/ dostoyevsky and gogol, i would assume it's a good translation.
November 3, 2026 at 1:57 AM
pevear and volokhonsky did a great job w/ dostoyevsky and gogol, i would assume it's a good translation.
"taking space in her mind that was once used to read Dostoyevsky" 🤣
October 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM
"taking space in her mind that was once used to read Dostoyevsky" 🤣
I've been getting into some classic literature lately.... reading dostoyevsky and george orwells works
October 31, 2026 at 12:21 AM
I've been getting into some classic literature lately.... reading dostoyevsky and george orwells works
"If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us."
Except, no?
Except, no?
October 31, 2026 at 8:25 PM
"If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us."
Except, no?
Except, no?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - “When reason fails, the devil helps!" he thought with a strange grin. This chance raised his spirits extraordinarily. #QuoteBot
November 2, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - “When reason fails, the devil helps!" he thought with a strange grin. This chance raised his spirits extraordinarily. #QuoteBot
If I was in a situation similar to that which Dostoyevsky depicts in The Double, it wouldn't have gone down like that
October 27, 2026 at 2:52 AM
If I was in a situation similar to that which Dostoyevsky depicts in The Double, it wouldn't have gone down like that
📚💙 ‘Dostoevsky Reminisces’ by Anna Dostoyevskaya: on the Secret to a Happy Marriage: Wisdom from One of History's Truest and Most Beautiful Loves 💕📚💕https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/15/anna-dostoyevsky-reminiscences-marriage/
Anna Dostoyevskaya on the Secret to a Happy Marriage: Wisdom from One of History’s Truest and Most Beautiful Loves
How to nurture a love that “would stand as a firm wall,” that “won’t let you fall, and it gives warmth.”
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November 1, 2026 at 9:56 PM
📚💙 ‘Dostoevsky Reminisces’ by Anna Dostoyevskaya: on the Secret to a Happy Marriage: Wisdom from One of History's Truest and Most Beautiful Loves 💕📚💕https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/15/anna-dostoyevsky-reminiscences-marriage/