February 2012
11 posts
“A stone thrown into a silent lake is—the sound of your name. The light click...”
– Marina Tsvetaeva, from “Poems for Blok, 1,” trans. Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine (via proustitute)
Feb 24th
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“I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets...”
– Anna Akhmatova, from “A land not mine, still” (translated by Jane Kenyon)
Feb 24th
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“My question - that which at the age of fifty brought me to the verge of suicide...”
– Leo Tolstoy in A Confession (1882)
Feb 24th
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“Who was it that took away my voice? The black wound he left in my throat Can’t...”
– Bella Akhmadulina, from “Silence” (translated by Daniel Halpern) (via ekphora)
Feb 24th
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Feb 24th
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Feb 22nd
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“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and...”
– Leo Tolstoy (via davisbecca)
Feb 16th
73 notes
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Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
33 notes
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“And so they met- like wave with mountain, Like verse with prose, like flame...”
– Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin (via i-starchild)
Feb 9th
38 notes
January 2012
13 posts
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“The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of...”
– Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (via tellhimtoshrug)
Jan 31st
104 notes
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Her Lover, Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), “Her Lover” —... →
modorraburlesca: Bolês, Górki
Jan 30th
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“My jests, gentlemen, are of course in bad taste, jerky, involved, lacking...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via calculatedlogicalandalone)
Jan 25th
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Jan 23rd
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Listenfuckyeahmayakovsky: Lily Brik reads “About...
Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
38 notes
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I Don't Know If You're Alive Or Dead by Anna...
toniiu: I don’t know if you’re alive or dead. Can you on earth be sought, Or only when the sunsets fade Be mourned serenely in my thought? All is for you: the daily prayer, The sleepless heat at night, And of my verses, the white Flock, and of my eyes, the blue fire. No-one was more cherished, no-one tortured Me more, not Even the one who betrayed me to torture, Not even the one who caressed me...
Jan 16th
53 notes
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Jan 15th
287 notes
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Jan 13th
45 notes
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Jan 12th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 7th
59 notes
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Jan 5th
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December 2011
8 posts
1 tag
Dec 27th
51 notes
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Dec 24th
28 notes
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Dec 20th
61 notes
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“We must trust people. Otherwise life is impossible.”
– Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya (via beautysaflower)
Dec 15th
73 notes
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Dec 11th
1 tag
“In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by...”
– Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
80 notes
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“She saw flashes of genius in every passing remark, in the puns he was forever...”
– Susan Sontag on Joseph Brodsky in Sigrid Nunez, Sempre Susan (2011). Oh Joseph, I’m with you on this Tolstoy business. He was such a bore. (via foxpass)
Dec 4th
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November 2011
11 posts
1 tag
“Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.”
– The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (via freins)
Nov 27th
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Nov 27th
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Nov 22nd
341 notes
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Nov 20th
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Nov 20th
59 notes
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Nov 16th
17 notes
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Nov 11th
363 notes
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“If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in...”
– Anton Chekhov (via thelibraryharlot)
Nov 8th
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Nov 6th
43 notes
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“I am a bug, and I recognize in all humility that I cannot understand why the...”
– Ivan Karamazov, The Brothers Karamazov (via hells-bells-trudy)
Nov 5th
343 notes
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Nov 2nd
October 2011
21 posts
1 tag
Oct 25th
41 notes
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“For them, everything seethes, and their peace does not look like yours. They...”
– Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov (via smrosie)
Oct 25th
28 notes
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Oct 25th
89 notes
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Oct 23rd
26 notes
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Oct 23rd
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“…could he have been born from the start If only for a fleeting moment To...”
– Ivan Turgenev
Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
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