#dostoevsky

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#fyodor-dostoevsky #hipsters #ignorance #politics #wisdom

In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them; frailty and madness, wickedness and saintliness, and the insanity of gambling were there to know as you knew the landscape and the roads in turgenev ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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#hemingway #reading #change

Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence. ↗

— Lev Shestov

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#faith