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I might act like a nerd but white nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky and flowers of buffoonery by Dazai Osamu are finally here! so excited to read white nights again since I already listened to it from an audiobook.
“I like revisiting, at certain times, spots where I was once happy; I like to shape the present in the image of the irretrievable past.”
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― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
August 1, 2024
"May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?"
GREGORY HINES & MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV White Nights (1985) dir. Taylor Hackford
“I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair… Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable of beginning to live a real life; because I have already begun to think that I have lost all sense of proportion, all sense of the real and the actual; because, what is more, I have cursed myself; because my nights of fantasy are followed by hideous moments of sobering! And all the time one hears the human crowd swirling and thundering around one in the whirlwind of life, one hears, one sees how people live—that they live in reality, that for them life is not something forbidden, that their lives are not scattered for the winds like dreams or visions but are forever in the process of renewal, forever young, and that no two moments in them are ever the same; while how dreary and monotonous to the point of being vulgar is timorous fantasy, the slave of shadow, of the idea…”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
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Happy Halloween folks.
Yeah well. if I need to explain...
The thing about this Halloween picture is that everyone had to wear a jacket, a tie and a mask for it. And also to keep a very serious face during the picture. It was the idea!!!
But unfortunately, probably due to the alcohol level in some of us, their inner smiles were just too hard to handle. Cheers!
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Happy Halloween folks.
GREGORY HINES & MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV White Nights (1985) dir. Taylor Hackford
— White Nights, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Now I too can say that I've been happy.
Le notti bianche (1957) dir. Luchino Visconti
Book haul
Currently reading th stranger and I'm almost finished!!
My literature professor agreed to teach the class ''white nights'' per my request.
I am far more than pleased.
Stay yourself, stay curious