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[lababo]

Prisoner

[lababo]

Your goal in life should be to reduce the amount of time it takes you to get out of a bad state. When you’re five, you can be mad for a day. When you’re ten, you can be mad for an hour. By the time you’re thirty, you get ten minutes—and then you have to move on.

James Clear

[lababo]

One can imagine a sentient picture, after being rubbed and scraped and re-commenced for the tenth time, wishing that it were only a thumb-nail sketch whose making was over in a minute. In the same way, it is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

CS Lewis, The Problem of Pain (1940)

[lababo]

Showing [man] so much respect, it seems as if You [Christ] ceased to have compassion for him, because You demanded too much from him—You loved him more than he loved himself! Had you respected him less, You might have demanded less of him…because his burden of responsibility would have been lighter.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov - The Grand Inquisitor (1880)

[lababo]

Oh, he so wanted to look at her, even just a glance, from far away! “She’s with him now,” he thought. “I want to see what she looks like with him, her [first] love, that’s all I need.” Never before had he felt such love in his heart for this woman who’d sealed his fate, so much new feeling, never experienced before, unexpected even to him, a feeling a bit like adoration, like dissolving into nothingness before her. “So I will disappear!”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[lababo]

And one might wonder what there is in a love that has to be guarded so closely, and what is a love that requires such forceful protection worth? But a genuinely jealous man will never understand that…

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[lababo]

Young man, do not forget to say your prayers. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, a new feeling will shine forth, and in it, a new idea, which you haven’t had before and which will hearten you; and you will understand that prayer is an education.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[lababo]

My young brother asked the birds to forgive him: that sounds foolish, but it is right, because everything is like an ocean, flowing and mixing; you touch it in one place and it shifts at the other end of the earth. It may be foolish to beg forgiveness of the birds, but birds would be better off, as would a child, and all animals around you, if you yourself were even a little more righteous than you are now.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[class1akids]

Final episode fanart by Namaste

[lababo]

Paper, they say, will not blush; but I can assure you this isn’t true, and that it’s blushing now, just the way I am. Here I’ve written you a love letter; my God, what have I done? Don’t despise me… Now the secret of my reputation, perhaps ruined forever, is in your hands. I shall certainly weep today. Good-bye, until our awful meeting.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[falloutnewnobody]

The Brothers Karamazov (1880)

[cat-astro-phi]

An angel on earth...

(inspo/reference under the cut! thank you @karamazovism for the idea!)

Agnès Varda

[metamorphesque]

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

[vividiangelo]

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

–Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[intuizioni]

i love mitya so much

[falloutnewnobody]

the "mitya," section of the Brothers Karamazov feels like having a dog who really likes to eat everything except for food. like every two paragraphs you have to go like "mitya! i saw that change in your tone! what bad choice is it you have in your mouth now?? were the past five bad choices not enough for you?? Drop that train of thought right now! i said drop it mitya. MITYA. DMITRY FYODOROVITCH KARAMAZOV DONT YOU DARE

[artechna]

“The kiss burns in his heart, but the old man adheres to his idea.”

Mmm The Grand Inquisitor. Ivan and Alyosha. The Brothers Karamazov. Probably one of my favorite scenes in the book.

(also the windows are entirely representational and not literal)