They should create a pursuit of perfection that doesn't destroy you.

This quote from The Little Prince is so important to me

The birds are singing, the faint scent of blossom lingers in the air, the wisteria is blooming, the days feel softer, sweeter and soon it will be warm enough to start wearing your Freudian slip again.

Embracing suffering. May write a poem. May emotionally destroy myself. May go mad. May have a lengthy embittered conversation with the devil and fall sick with fever.

How I look indulging the nostalgia, surrendering to the nostalgia, instead of living in the real world

A good litmus test of fragile masculinity is how a man reacts to being asked whether he’s ever read or intends to read the works of Jane Austen.

What is love but the art of embarrassing yourself over and over again and enjoying it a little more each time?

Yes Dostoevsky, this is exactly how existing feels

I have the special kind of melancholy that attracts me to weeping willow trees and deep, enticing bodies of water.

Girls are always 'fine' then they look at you with eyes more filled with suffering than the average Dostoevsky novel.

How I look lying on the ground to remind myself I cannot fall any further from grace than this

I need to submerge myself in a body of water about this.

Oh to be in a café, sipping coffee, disseminating theory, shouting, barking, philosophising, kicking tables and throwing chairs, leading the revolution.

Arthur Miller...

As a deeply troubled, delicately constituted loser, you could easily write the next great work of literature. You just don’t feel like it right now.

Thank you Dostoevsky for giving us Ivan Karamazov because who else would burnt out, religiously conflicted, academically wasted individuals with various undiagnosed psychological complexes relate to?

How life feels when you learn to find beauty in the mundane

The trick to a fulfilling life is to play dumb with the strategy of a chess grandmaster.

Gift from my nephew. (Otherwise known as the coolest Brothers Karamazov cover yet.)

'You leave everyone on read' Please know I would leave god on read if he furnished me with a handwritten invitation into heaven.