Dostoevsky, Fyodor " A Little Hero " (Russian: Маленький герой/Malen'kiy geroy) - 1857 Novel in Nine Letters - 1847 A Gentle Creature - 1876...| momobookblog.blogspot.com
keg, You’ve been through so much in your early years, which shaped how you functioned in young adulthood. I’m glad you’ve finally understood that these are all malleable versions …| K E Garland
“My total forgetfulness and my absolute failure to recognize you today are but your absolute presence and my total absorption of yesterday. As much as you were — as much you are no longer. The absolute presence in reverse. Such a presence cannot but become such an absence. Everything yesterday, nothing today.” - Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), from a letter to Abram Vishnyak (1895-1943), in a Postface to “Nine Letters with a Tenth Kept Back and an Eleventh Received” (published letters...| - The Reader -
“My forgetting you is nothing but another title of nobility. A certificate of your past value.” - Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), from a letter to Abram Vishnyak (1895-1943), in “Nine Letters with a Tenth Kept Back and an Eleventh Received” “Моё забвение Вас — еще один патент на благородство. Удостоверение Вашего достоинства в прошлом.” (via finita–la–commedia)| - The Reader -
“What is it to forget a human being ? - It is to forget what one suffered through him …” - Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), from a letter to Abram Vishnyak (1895-1943), in “Nine Letters with a Tenth Kept Back and an Eleventh Received” “Что такое забыть кого-то ? Это забыть причиненные им страдания.” (via finita–la–commedia)| - The Reader -
“I thought your soul was greater and more worthy of mine, for I have loved you with all the love there is in my heart. You’re killing what life I still have, you blow everything away with one puff as though it were a mere spider’s web. I have nothing left in the world, nothing left in life. You love me, and yet you are killing me. You destroy my happiness and your own. I was beginning to amass in my heart so much love and happiness. You are crazy and I am crazier still. But don’t you ...| - The Reader -
“A telegram from you Dearest, best part of what I am… This morning after I had sent you a twenty-six-page [letter] registered—I came back & broke down again—There was so much more to say in the letter & I realized I hadn’t said it—that I felt no matter what I wrote I couldn’t make you feel what really was eating me up—killing me—Not your being away but that terrible lack of togetherness when you left—& I know that without that I am lost—…” - Alfred Stieglitz (1864-19...| - The Reader -
-- Rimbaud’s last known letter, dictated to his sister on November 9, 1891, the day before he died, in: “I promise to be good”, translated from the French by Wyatt Mason Monsieur le Directeur, I would...| Tumblr